Meeting her gaze –I want her to see
sisterhood — I want to say
“Look, I’m scared, too, I’m prey —
the shrapnel spinning slow-motion
in my chest — unravelling me”
but she sees the stone tipped spear
the bronze headed arrow, the
cross-bow bolt.
— Some slight
movement of mine, some twitch
sway breath — an explosion
— of movement
— she is gone
For Brendan at earthweal, where we are meeing nature’s gaze.