Victoria Rose Kopishke

Victoria Rose Kopishke is an actor, teacher, and the Business Manager of the School of Performing Arts at DeSales University. She holds a BA in Theatre, English, and Secondary Education (DeSales), and MA in Theatre (Villanova University). She is a second-year MFA candidate in DeSales’ Creative Writing program.

Spring Fever (POEM)

Chalk scraping on pavement

heralds the coming Spring—

Rejoice, you young ones

with rainbow-dusted fingers!

It’s been so long

since you’ve drawn here.

You scrawl, “Get better soon,

Mom,” and I promise, Son,

I’m trying.  Soak up that sun—

I summon my husk

of a body, turn

my cheek to the light,

tell that slumped Christmas cactus

on the kitchen sill

that Easter beckons.  Never mind

the vortex of cackling leaves,

flurry of autumn’s remains,

or the dissonant chimes

tinkling in D minor.  Take heart—

now is the time to prepare.

Lord, take this delirious mind,

these sweating palms, heaving

sides, and prickling scalp—

remake me, raise me, too.

From April’s Windowsill, Killarney (POEM)

The orange glow of streetlights  

mirrors the setting sun 

beyond the cathedral steeple, 

the Kerry hills. 

And I think of you. 

The mountains disappear 

into mist 

great clouds descending, 

consuming. 

And I think of you. 

A foal dances in the meadow ahead. 

Cow and bull nestle in their daffodil bed, 

the way we would lie 

in the field 

blossoming, our freckled cheeks 

crimsoning beneath the fuchsia sky. 

And I think of you    

I think of  

you I  

think of you.