'Wheat' and 'Out of a balloon'
by Victoria Spires
Wheat
Now all the golds, parsed
through the slow syntax of summer heat
are leached of their old meaning
and I am tongue-tied—
The train, a trance state, running through me
What have you done with the things
I knew of myself?
These tides of evenings. The fields’
pale blue-grey, a baptism in waiting
I am full of a waiting I can't describe—
The next time, and the next time and the next
time until the turning point
is erased
Out of a balloon
Then joy comes at you, pin tack
sharp, from somewhere. It must
be the way the night falls
so gently, like warm air out of a
balloon: bobbed aloft by many
hands of laughter rising up
to meet it. Earlier, you climbed the
church tower, to be one rooftop
among a city. Your pigeon
heart startled by the bell's
insistent now. Tonight, the clock
face is a stand-in moon.
VICTORIA SPIRES is a Forward-nominated poet. Recent publications include The Marrow, The Little Review, Poetry Ireland Review. In 2025 she won the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize and placed Third in the Rialto Competition. She was a finalist in the Mslexia Women's Poetry Competition 2025 and long-listed in the Propel Cambridge Poetry Prize 2026. Her debut pamphlet Soi-même was published by Salo Press in 2025 (now sold out).
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The line about the “slow syntax of summer heat” in Wheat really stopped me, and the “pigeon heart” in Out of a balloon feels so tender and true. Both poems left me with that quiet, suspended feeling. By the way, I keep a supplier of construction wire, tie wire, rebar supports, anchor bolts and temporary fencing for importers and distributors I like to share: https://www.leeter.cn/resources/stucco-wire-mesh/
The way the train's trance state runs through you while those summer golds lose their meaning—that's the kind of self-loss I recognize too well. I've been finding more of Spires' sharp-edged lyricism over at https://video-face-swap.net
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