Luci Shaw

Unseen

In “Unseen,” the poet Luci Shaw examines air as both force and shelter, a mysterious tabernacle “for what we can’t see.”

Luci Shaw

Hate Invasion

In Luci Shaw’s “Hate Invasion,” anxieties, like crows, “clot” and “colonize” the mind and heart of the poet, who longs for divine answers to earth’s evils.

Luci Shaw

Translation

After resurrection, Jesus acted strange, materializing through solid wood, even though he didn’t look that different. The gashes seeped still, varnishing the tentative hand, the fingers that needed to know him new. Let me say how strange I feel, trusting this to be true—that a body can be both mortally wounded and whole enough to […]

Luci Shaw

Reconstruction

In this poem, Luci Shaw metaphorically considers the cycles of collapse and reformation that define the spiritual life.

Luci Shaw

Holding on

In this poem, Luci Shaw evokes sharp images of winter, mystery, nihilism, and death.