Come now.
We are a stalled dawn.
We must summon stillness.
A full proper
sanctified stillness.
Immeasurable in
footsteps, miles
hours, days
heartbeats, breaths,
sighs.
We resist gravity,
relinquish rules
rending us apart.
Let’s spin spells,
stir seeds and dirt,
petals and fragrance.
We lie perennial
and perfect.
Come now.
We are the dead-heat distance
of leaving to return,
of letting go to stray.
Come into
this crossing, this loving.
Inimitable. Ours.
Come.
No. Run.
Catherine Arra is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks. Her recent work appears in Anti-Heroin Chic, Unbroken, Impspired, Poetica Review, Piker Press, Rat’s Ass Review, and Unleash Lit. Arra is a native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, where she lives with wildlife and changing seasons until winter when she migrates to the Space Coast of Florida. Arra teaches part-time and facilitates local writing groups. Find her at www.catherinearra.com.
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