At Clode Sound by Renée M. Sgroi

November 15, 2023
Poem title: At Clode Sound Poet name: Renée M. Sgroi Poem: rumbling in dawn’s rain, the sound is travelling, restless, as if the distance from ocean to shore is leagues-infinite, as if the point of moon-rolling a current is to polish it into a weight dropped down a well, a line to plumb depth a sounding. how measurable a vibration is a frequency toned in silvers and grays, in eagle flecks and waxwings, the whales spray into morning’s breach like a wing flapping, quiet the sound is a tune of tines that reverberate in raindrops, in pine needles that fall, sticking their evergreen waves to the shore in unbending movements of keeping. a ping of wetness on dried wood, a sound is a wave born of striking an atmospheric perception the outer ear amplifies the way a fjord collects an idea and turns it, inwards as if to contemplate its saltiness or the heartbeat in its circularity. a sound is a form of water treed banks enclose the ocean embraced, a body that can’t contain its own open-ended questions for which the birds and fish bear echoes End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Renée M. Sgroi Previously published in Literary Review of Canada, October 2023. Renée M. Sgroi’s first poetry collection, life print, in points (erbacce-press) was published in 2020, and her second will be published in 2024 by Guernica Editions. Her poetry has appeared in Literary Review of Canada, Pinhole Poetry, The Windsor Review, The /tƐmz/ Review, Poetry Pause and numerous anthologies. A member of The Writers Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, and the Canadian Authors Association, she is also a contributing editor for Arc Poetry Magazine.