Janet Rodney
TERMINAL COLORS: Selected Poems: 1974-2005

Talisman House, Publishers
ISBN 10: 1-58498-052-4
ISBN 13: 978-1-58498-052-0
Paper, 110 + vi pp., 6x9
$12.95

At first, only loss. By day or when moon sucks up darkness,
you feel loss. You might not know why. This dimension of
absence visible in rotting. Blackening of a body. But loss is
not the whole of it. Change is. Shadow might numb you or
draw you down. But part of you is already here. You might
be remade elsewhere. What is certain is, you will keep mov-
ing. Maybe in the shape of a quite different person.

Animal forms arrive and dance. Men dressed as deer with
dazed eyes. Revel. I turn your way, love fulfilling in dark
ness. For a moment there is an opening downward. Your body
disruptive next to mine. Nature deforming while you
sleep. Conversion of matter into baseless fabric.

Cfrom AHeavy Is the Root of Light That Lies in the Still Dark@

Poems Aas carefully crafted as they are engaging . . . @ CMidwest Book Review

Poet, artist, and printer, Janet Rodney lives in New Mexico, where she manages Weaselsleeves Press. Her childhood was divided among the United States, Europe, and Taiwan. She worked as an interpreter, editor, and translator in Spain for fifteen year. She is the author of  many chapbooks and books, the most recent of which is Moon on an Oarblade Rowing (2005). Terminal Colors brings together representative works from thirty years.