Poetry

“Furtive Fields” and “Nomad-rivers”

by Emily Bilman

Photo by Cassi Josh on Unsplash

Furtive Fields

Along the corridors of my body

I enter each room feel my blood-

streams flow from organtoorgan, feel

the linings of my lungs swell

with each breath feel them weep

in the junction of every weather-

crisis feel the sinuous coil

of my guts with its digestive

juices oozing from soft clean

membranes like lilac-nectar

feel the blood rush inside my brain

lighting up furtive eco-fields

Nomad-rivers

A farmer with sensibility

displaces his family

stepaftersteadystep

towards the mountain

containing human relics

buried insidelandslides

amphibian-glaciers

moult moreandmore

into ashen rivers

dammed by mud

moreandmore

and moreandmore

as weeping willows

lament the tokens

of teeming valleys

About the Author

Emily Bilman

Dr. Emily Bilman is a widely published and anthologized author of poetry, of literary and psychoanalytical essays, and non-fiction. She has a long-term training in psychoanalysis. Her PhD dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry was published by Lambert Academic, DE in 2010. Modern Ekphrasis (2013) was published by Peter Lang Academic, CH. Her poetry books, A Woman by A Well (2015), The Threshold of Broken Waters (2018), Apperception (2020), The Undertow (2023), and Resilience (2025) were published by Troubador Books, UK. Her book, The Shadow-Tamer, was published in September 2026. Her sonnet, “Pathfinder”, landed on the moon with a time-capsule. She teaches literature, psychoanalysis, and creative writing in Geneva and New York. Read more at her website.