Page 6 - Chimera by Hannah Sheridan

Heather bluster bluffs
distant sea
b l o w
heather
heather tumbles rubs my cheeks
draws me
further from my slumber long I have
Dreamed ? no matter purple blossoms still wave
weeps,
mad mad sockets
moon’s
dim
I wander down
paths tender feet squeeze
until currents
tickle my awakening skin
she curls into a question shoulders
mark,
she distills absence of rock
skin stretched
cave, limestone
carved with the same rough beat hollows widens
she tears knuckles, paints her canvas all in red
once, she promised to never bow but now, spine cracks
sand lifts in my branches swirls
through the hourglass of my pleading palms
together
we crumble
rock water
weathered wood, I disperse to a new communion
thin eternal anguish under
passive blink
virgin soil
indolent
perhaps
one day I will tire
across
bluffs and bluffs
echo shameful safety
how