Jennifer Hambrick
Our House
—after Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
you are the hum inside
this space, the warm within
the cold-stone eaves
I have loved you
the way lamplight loves
a small room
incandescent
with a touch of shadow
on walls so thin
I hear the river rushing
through the years
A seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Jennifer Hambrick is the author of "a silence or two," winner of the Merit Book Award, Haiku Society of America; "In the High Weeds," winner of the Stevens Manuscript Award, National Federation of State Poetry Societies; "Joyride," winner: Marianne Bluger Book Award; and "Unscathed." Hambrick is featured by Ted Kooser in American Life in Poetry, on Rattlecast, on Inside the Writers Head, and elsewhere and has received many commissions for interdisciplinary collaborations. Hambrick’s poems appear in The Columbia Review, Rattle, Southeast Review, Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, One Art, Modern Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in many other literary journals and invited anthologies and, along with her critical essays, have won numerous awards. A public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and cultural journalist, Jennifer Hambrick lives in Columbus. jenniferhambrick.com.