Wednesday, June 29, 2022

RACHAEL ALLEN ~





Crying girl

in the canopy

branch held

unstable

a face drawn

pendant-

shaped, from

the bark

marks

how like

a tree is

a woman

crumbling

with age

conversations

inaudible

without a

stethoscope

to the forest

floor and

even then

we whisper.



____________________

Rachael Allen

Kingdomland

Faber & Faber, 2019