Ingrid Bruck is wild flower gardener and a poet inspired by nature. She lives in Amish country in Pennsylvania. This site shocases selected works by her.

Scars & country house - Published by: Poetry Hall: Chinese & English Bilingual Journal, Issue 5, pp. 130

Scars

After:  “Because right now there is someone out there with a wound in the exact shape of your words.”  ~ Sean T. Daughty, The Sound O of Sorrow


Her shredded wings

on a coneflower

regale the storm she navigated.

A butterfly endures storms, 

embraces sun and flowers.

Her flutter stamp imprints

on each collecting raindrop. 

Multiple impressions

gather 

in mirrors of water.

Versions of herself expand. 

Crystal teardrops stretch.

Drop-by-drop.

She drips. 

She falls and splashes

wounds, healed by sunshine.


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country house


The house perches

on Martic Heights 

near the ridge-top.

A curtain of land

fills the front windows.

The door opens north.


The living room

on the backside

faces south into the sun. 

From morning to night

light flows through

a window wall 

that holds the sky 

and tree tops heavy with birds.


This poem is not about an oil painting.

The arms embrace north and south.

This is really a poem about home.


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Date Published: October 6, 2019

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