A Place to Play

For Fiserv Forum

You interrupt the sky
with more sky. Voodoo

architecture of glass.
An iris of restless color:

now daybreak
now rain cloud

now sundown and lit
from within.

Your zinc canopy swells
and spills like a waterfall,

like my body
in genuflection.

 

Though voted most improved on her high school basketball team, Lora Keller can’t dribble. But her poems are widely published and earned numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize nomination. Previously, she was a journalist, public relations executive, educator and small business owner in Milwaukee, New York City and Kansas City.