Nicola Themistes
i.
furling rosehips turn
through the fingertips
spidermoss & sparrowsong
the nest of a blue wren
the pearl would not exist
without the creeping caterpillar
ii.
i whisper not
to the furling shades,
nor whistle songs
to your ragged gaze –
nightshade fruits from every blossom
& no hyacinth left to bud in hindsight
Nicola Themistes is the author of Spectacle City: An Allegory. Her works have been published in Cordite, Southerly Journal, and Outcrop: radical Australian poetry of land. She lives in a forest somewhere in Northern NSW. Poetry is life and life is poetry.
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