KALE HENSLEY is a West Virginia by birth and a poet by faith. They live in Texas with their wife, best friend, and a menagerie of clingy pets. You can find more of their poetry, nonfiction, and visual art at kalehens.com.
Sanctity rhymes not with silence but
humanity, with crease or creativity,
with east and ease; let me make such
a mark unfound till now; hair’s width
or scar’s slight in the slant light says
I too am a prisoner to my rotations
in devotion, I too wish for another
to do the speaking; who better, who
than the finger tracing lingers, kind
as adders, a claw to prove I am still
too creature, my weight a company
of feathers. Sanctity rhymes not with
silence but drawing, but dream, pea
or swell, oh well says she, farewell.
Volume 15.2 ✧ Summer 25
Kale Hensley
for Eadburg
