Pickleweed Inlet

a free verse poem for riparian: the banks of our love

Blue Heron in Pickleweed Inlet by Samantha Wallen

“we must all
be notorious, ready to die
for your gospel of crack
and eggshell…
heirs of air and cloud,
blood brothers of breath
and wind…”
— from irreplaceable, Part 11 by Willy Palomo

how might i disappear, willingly
be broken eggshell
so scattered there’s no way
to continue to place myself
at the center