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.