Megan Johnson

Nocturne 3

Fingering the edges conventionally,
a marriage, a sweet-toothed swan

skimming its way through pond & pinnacle.
A fate, the hands clasping, retired bullock

in bed of hay retrieving glassy sheen.
October free fall. Bits of wind near seizure.

Can happen inside the circumference of loyalty,
a bashful heat from bodies, breach, lurch, search

me till raw limbs. You, farm-like among
apple trees, wed to your self a whelping

wing, mistake & Pythagorean theorem.
A plow soft with rust curdles hardening earth.

Please tell me how to exit rooms unnoticed but
with a kiss o exhaled wire & seeing through.

 
Poetry
Hinemoana Baker (audio)
James Brown (audio)
Rachel Bush (audio)
Jen Crawford
Emily Dobson
Megan Johnson  
Andrew Johnston
Stefanie Lash
Anna Livesey
Stephanie de Montalk
Marty Smith
Elizabeth Smither
Cath Vidler
Sue Wootton
Sonja Yelich

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