Darlene Pagán

 

Angels at the Well

 

Heredity

God's Ray

Warm rain falls
through the headlight
of a storm engine
chuffing soot cloud
into soot cloud,
steering the afternoon
into night like
an unwilling child
to bed. On the grass,
my sons spin, arms
out like an offering
the sun accepts,
throwing herself down
heaven’s fluted throat.

 

 

 

 

Darlene Pagán is the author of a chapbook, Blue Ghosts (Finishing Line Press 2011), and a full-length collection, Setting the Fires (Airlie Press 2015).  She teaches at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and is currently completing a memoir titled, The Safest Place to Fall.  For more information, see: www.darlenepagan.com