Ode to Catherine 1 and Her Unexpected Cleavage Pic

By Terry Trowbridge

Copyright ©2025

I hesitate to reply.

Even poets observe silence

in the cleavage of the ineffable.

Their heavy breathing might echo:

a sound that bounces

as joyfully as the canyon

and the generosity of high noon

when the sumptuous sunlight

throws no shadows on the perfect postcard.

About Terry Trowbridge:

Canadian Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, researcher & farmer Terry Trowbridge’s poems are in Pennsylvania Literary Journal, MasticadoresUSA, Poetry Pacific, Carousel, Lascaux Review, Carmina, untethered, Progenitor, Miracle Monocle, Orbis, Pinhole, Big Windows, Muleskinner, Brittle Star, Mathematical Intelligencer, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, New Note, Hearth and Coffin, Beatnik Cowboy, Delta Poetry Review, Stick Figure, miniMAG, and 100+ more. His lit crit is in BeZine, Erato, Amsterdam Review, Ariel, British Columbia Review, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Episteme, Studies in Social Justice, Rampike, Seeds, and The /t3mz/ Review.  His Erdös number is 5. Terry is grateful to the Ontario Arts Council for his first 2 writing grants.