Why the Poet Speaks of God

Why the Poet Speaks of God Jenna K. Funkhouser (bio) For we can only indicateIn poetry of bending lightSituated on the undersideOf your complex prism. Every act of definitionIs a limitation in whichWe lose. Outside, the suede fawns thrashThrough the new snowOf the ancient forest. The cool mist clingsTo the lips of theAncient hills. Everything suggests And we, we must cryEven in a thousandHalting syllablesThis tantalizing WordCaressing the ruinsOf a newly-spoken world. [End Page 171] Jenna K. Funkhouser Jenna K. Funkhouser is an author and nonprofit communicator living in Portland, OR. Her poetry has recently been published by Geez Magazine, As It Ought To Be, and Saint Katherine Review, as well as the Oregon Poetry Association. Copyright © 2023 Johns Hopkins University Press