In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to offer daily poetry during April.
JUNE BRACKEN WAIST HIGH UNDER BIRCH
by Elizabeth Myhr
the world white and green and the white horse
unseen its long white neck
bent down in the high grass
ripping and ripping like a soul coming loose
from its tired hinges
a woman combs her tangled hair as if
it will bring some kind of god closer
as if she will wrap her brown hair around
an old god snarled by wind
the wind nestles into the bracken and the white mane
lifts a bit the bracken shifts
my legs were like alder saplings
my feet lost at the bottom of the green world
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Beautiful piece.
I love the imagery and the sounds in this piece, and the seen and unseen, yet felt, places it inhabits. I find myself wanting to read this again and again.