Fahmidan Journal / Issue 17
Survival in Retrograde
by Louise Mather
The sun is never too hot in the woods
and we'll be half in seraphinite, melancholia
will drip off our skin for the water to turn
into neptune Make the moon into a dove's wing and wrap
it around my tongue like lapis lazuli
in winter, survival in retrograde Do not pluck the flowers but lay me
on to them, or lay yourself, become
the glimmered bluebells, the roots, the oak,
rub the sky on to my body Hold me up or fold us into the earth
and press moss on to your ribs, this sap
is for our lips and when it rains
we will no longer need to run
Louise Mather
Author /
Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and founding editor of Acropolis Journal. A finalist in the Streetcake Poetry Prize, her work is published in The North, Broken Sleep Books, Acumen and Dust Poetry Magazine. Her debut pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was published in 2021. Twitter @lm2020uk IG: louise.mather.uk
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