Stardom
By Lora Berg
January 15, 2023
January 15, 2023
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I turn toward the sun, gaze where it tends,
yearn for it as it bends over the horizon and leaves me all night long, long, long, making its briefest appearance in December. I’m always at the stage door, noting the hour. At home, since I added tall windows I can stand in the middle of the house like a compass, tracing the sun’s passage and see the mysteries of dust light up, or spin like a helianthus, reaching for its beams. Without it, I’m unsung. |
A current member of the Poetry Collective of Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Lora Berg writes with a light touch, sometimes on difficult topics. Lora has published a collaborative book with visual artist Canute Caliste, and poems in Shenandoah, Colorado Review and The Carolina Quarterly, etc. She served as a Poet-in-Residence at the Saint Albans School and holds an MFA from Johns Hopkins. Among hats, Lora has served as Cultural Attaché at U.S. Embassies abroad and lived in several countries.