from “Violence” I am breathing. I am breathing lightly as, light as, shell — / breath as, moth — / breath as, bird — / breath moon’s faces a triptych sets Mars’ red against turquoise — a sister, (less 6) * serious now, it is — (a purple sonority pageant of silks, their faces — dive of bird cuts through watered silk finds its level (frozen) we are mouth -bound crystalline gold cold — a) woman walks into winter © C. Murray 2022
First published belfield literary review, issue 2, spring 2022, Eds. Paul Perry and Niamh Campbell.
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