Soul Midden
Jennifer Ashley
April 1, 2002
She came to me in fragments,
burned, curled—words
wound around the dead.
Others found her intertwined
and assumed she was the same:
trash heap, debris, fifth-century mulch.
Rising through pulp and papyrus,
the question presses my thought:
Was it fear that buried her?
Saint Gregory thought he could
get rid of Sappho—silenced into ashes,
banished, the first of Galileos.
But see, she comes together,
word leading to word.
She resurrects like truth.
Jennifer Ashley is a writer of poetry and fiction who was a finalist for the 2002 James Wright Poetry Award for Mid-American Review. She and her husband Charles—both recovering Baptists—are members of Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Luis Obispo, California.
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