J. C. Scharl is a poet, essayist, and playwright. She serves as a senior editor for The European Conservative. Her work has appeared on the BBC and in The New Ohio Review, The American Journal of Poetry, The Hopkins Review, Plough Quarterly, The Lamp, Classical Outlook, and many other journals. She lives near Detroit with her husband and children.
For L & S Sand sifting through and over your fingers: that is power enough, for you know that to build is to be divine in this small world. By your spoon and single truck, you are deified, as deliberate as—or more than—those kings of old Mesopotamia steering their kingdoms of clay. ~ ~ ~…
