Ravaged

Ravaged…

I am splintering.

Thrice.

Fragments of ice

slice through tender skin

– silver daggers puncture holes

bleed snow.

A frozen tree cracks –

slams tortured timber

across

a forested floor.

Shivering body

swirls in chaotic waters.

Labored breathing forces

Soul Surrender.

Even endurance has limits

I learn.

June 30 2020

 

Seal Skin – Soul Skin

 

This body is

my holy altar

my bounded skin

my embodied soul

my closet kin.

 

July 2 2020