Friday, April 13, 2018

Slow Spring (Magnolia)

Silver fur unfurled, slipped like silk from a shoulder, the pink flesh not unlike an open wound, an open woman.
A primal pulse halted the skeletal fingers, an unseen ticking clock…knuckles cracking, the strength of Spring beating back Winter…laboring a warming age through ice and sunlight.
Just a fracture of bloom, a fraction of God.
E.A. O'Connell