Road With Cypresses by D.S. Martin You have not always felt so straight & strong felt more stable than passersby more revelatory than the crescent moon in the inverted sky You watch wheatfields waver with life & energy unnoticed by the preoccupied Nothing is static You see the curl of cinnamon & gold the swirl of indigo & sapphire But tonight bridging between seen & unseen you stand shimmering & alive each heavenly light with its own corona vibrates as in your mirrored eye
D.S. Martin is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, the Series Editor for the Poiema Poetry Series from Cascade Books, and serves on the Advisory Board for Traces. His new poetry collection The Role of the Moon (Paraclete Press) is a Gold Medal Winner at the Illumination Book Awards, and a Finalist for the 2026 Poetry Society of Virginia North American Poetry Book Award.
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