Please join Synkroniciti in welcoming Canadian poet Tara Knight, with an achingly expressive cadralor, “Urban Spaces.” These five stanzas vary between five and six lines and are filled with rich imagery that links subtleties of the natural world–certain slants of light, the silence between thunderclaps, moonlight and cricket song, to name but a few–to experience and emotion. The episodic nature of the cadralor creates a series of literary snapshots, which, in Tara’s hands, feel like scenery for memory to play upon and ponder. She laments the passage of time while basking in the sweetness of memory. We would never know one without the other. “In the spaces between petals, we will write the things that flowers hide./ A gentle breeze with a tilt of the head will reveal that secret geometry./ Triangles in green, hexagons of shadow, somewhere close behind, I know you are watching.” Tara has a way of turning a phrase with a quietly sensual and deeply reverent insight that betrays hints of Rumi. Gentle sibilance and rhythm beg to be read out loud even as the subjects of loss and absence feel private, personal, and utterly vulnerable.
Read “Urban Spaces” in Synkroniciti’s “Vulnerable” issue, available here: https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/purchase-individual-issues/. You don’t want to miss this exciting new voice.
Tara Knight is an emerging writer who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada. Tara’s work is in the Literary Hatchet Magazine Issue 32, Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor Issues 5, 6 & 7, Star*Line Volume 46, Issue 3, and her creative non-fiction won 2nd place in the Toasted Cheese Literary Magazine Midsummer Writing Contest (published Sept 2023).
When she isn’t pondering names for her backyard chickens, Tara enjoys talking with people who have something to say and a good BBQ.