Saturday, January 12, 2019

Gillian Swain - #47 - hold you while moving

Those beads
they used to ride her   arms to
forests   to festivals   to
oceans   to sky
with grit   sweat 
all things frenetic   all things
sweep   drift   rest
the ones on the belly
(fertility beads   she only conceived 
when they
came off)
shimmied around abdomen   listening
to her hips   to her gut   those beads
wrapped her skin
glinting colour   collecting clues
and secretly   gathering   voice   touch
answers
they hold   moments   have memory
hold you   in time   hold you
in place
and what of the ties that bind
the cord that threads the
glass the   clay the
skin the   voice the
dirt the   heart
aura is visceral
those beads
write poems all over her skin

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