Green Linden Press

Təqʷuʔbəʔ

after “Seattle’s Poem” by Claudia Castro Luna

Paradise is a meadow
Perched on the blooms
And seeds of wildflowers, blue
Violet of Jeffrey’s Shooting Star, red
Pink of Rosy Spirea
Early morning
Deer grazing
The two inseparable as
Language is to poem and
Water to life
Təqʷuʔbəʔ I call to
The mother of waters

Scott Bentley received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell. He's been a curator of the Gamut literary series, a Mineral School resident, Hugo House Fellow, and editor at Clamor, Ghost Town, and Pacific Review. His writing and art have appeared in Breathe, Paperbark, Abalone Mountain Press, and elsewhere.