Synkroniciti is delighted to welcome poet Jane Ellen Glasser, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jane opens the “Vulnerable” issue with “Meditation,” a delightful invitation to regain the vitality and sparkle in our lives. “Why did the little bird/ of your soul go mute?/ Who stole the words/ from your mouth?/ When did your shoes/ stop dancing in sunlight?” Jane’s use of repetition creates a songlike structure that dances its way into our minds, as transparent as a shaft of sunlight. She reminds us that allowing ourselves to express our internal song when we know we are not strong is part of the healing process. The vulnerability to try again is vital to stay alive and be happy.
Read “Meditation” in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/.
Jane Ellen Glasser’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Georgia Review. In the past she served as the poetry critic for The Virginian-Pilot, poetry editor for the Ghent Quarterly and Lady Jane’s Miscellany, and co-founder of the nonprofit arts organization and journal New Virginia Review. She won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for Light Persists (2006), and the Poetica Publishing Chapbook Contest for The Long Life (2011). Jane Ellen Glasser: Selected Poems(2019), Staying Afloat during a Plague (2021), and Crow Songs (2021) are her recent collections. To learn more about the poet and her work, visit http://www.janeellenglasser.com.