Anne Hall Levine

Shape Unseen

In the space between breath and belief,
something stirs, unnamed.
Thought, unchained from reason,
stretches fingers toward
clouds twisting into omens,
etching meaning into murmurs of birds.

A coin lands on its edge,
a blink tangles the course of fate.
Sourceless, a shadow lengthens.
Wind, though silent, carries messages
for those who listen.

Wishes pressed between palms
hold more weight than law.

When thought is bold enough to bend the world,
the world bends toward thought.
Belief shapes the formless
forward as if the bridge exists.

Hold the thread of an unseen hand
and walk into the mist.
What is truth, what is followed?
Somewhere, between longing and the impossible,
a doorway flickers,
waiting for those who never learn.

Anne Hall Levine was born and raised in New York, NY. She studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Tikkun, Poetica Magazine, Voices Israel, Muddy River Poetry Review,and Main Street Rag. Anne lives on Cape Cod where she created and hosts Ukraine 242, a syndicated show on the Pacifica network. She also produces and hosts The Anne Levine Show, a weekly radio talk show on WOMR-FM Provincetown.