Dorinda Wegener
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Dorinda Wegener was brought home from Portsmouth Naval Hospital to a tiny apartment on Thornton Street, “Nutfield”, NH – Robert Frost’s first Derry residence prior to his Frost Farm. Since then, poetry continues to enrich her life. She has published in Salamander, The Worcester Review, The Larcom Review, Ceide (Ireland), and forthcoming in The Marlboro Review. Her work has been displayed at Harvard University’s Lamont Library. Her poem “Thaw”, placed second in The Worcester County Poetry Association Contest as judged by Jeffrey Harrison. Dorinda has read with Tapestry of Voices, Stone Soup Poets, and the Brookline Booksmith Series. She has been an assistant editor for The Summer Home Review Vol. I & II. Her first manuscript, All I’s and O’s, is a quartet of retrospection, invention, transience, and identity.
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A Map Back Home
A girl drifts along the corridors of her body, and wonders
If she knows how to open her right atrium
With blood, there is always something at the threshold:
A lung, an eye, a breast bone suffocating, but what
of a second cut grain or the braided fingers
of strawberry vines- the girl recalls the clay
lamp she sculpted in Sunday School; how
the burning was symbolic of something lost
from patchwork quilt to basement root cellar-
the small, dank pit – a womb: her map begins
here. She turns new lamps from tuber skins –
hangs one at each lymph node, vessel valve. She
illuminates every statue of Christ, every winter home.
To be in the map and of the map: She
moves by visceral touch with infrared heat;
yet on nights when the wind bleats and the axe
still contacts the block, she oscillates between
light and milk, life and death: drifting,
but it is hers to drift. Hers to drift –
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