From you,the wings of a seraphim grow.Like the blue.Like infinity.You tore the currents fromthe shore,you belted the sky against its flesh andheld back the threat of rain.But there was a recent time when youfell through the thick of cloudsand fell some more,the heart pattered out,the bone slipped into death,and the truth peeled away at the skin.A limpid metaphor.Your tendons were led, strung up likeskulls on pikes.Your tears, clear droplets mingled withplump pity wereflicked beneath the burning sighs.While breaths wrung out to be strangled bythe claws of mud-coated ground.But, the patient one, with hearty bale of madnessyou had carried on.Stripping apathy of its sorcery.Leaving it eyeless and dull.Then you stirred when tomorrow archedacross yesterday,where the hallowed calmdarkened over water-lights of today.Pleasures and pain. Glory and shame.And skyward to light you soared,on extended wings.
Like the Blue Like Infinity
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About the writer
Lana Bella. Lana Bella has a diverse work of poetry and flash fiction published and forthcoming with Anak Sastra, Atlas Poetica, Bareback Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Beyond Imagination, Buck-Off Magazine, Calliope Magazine, Cecile's Writers' Magazine, Dead Snakes Poetry, Deltona Howl, Earl of Plaid Lit, Eunoia Review, Eye On Life Magazine, Family Travel Haiku, First Literary Review-East, Five Willows Literary Review, Foliate Oak Literary, Garbanzo Literary Journal, Global Poetry, Ken*Again, Kind Of A Hurricane Press, Literary Orphans, Marco Polo Arts Literary, Mothers Always Write, Nature Writing, New Plains Review, Poetry Pacific, Snapping Twigs, Spank The Carp, The Camel Saloon, The Bleeding Lion, The Commonline Journal, The Criterion Journal, The Higgs Weldon, The Screech Owl, The Voices Project, Thought Notebook Undertow Tanka Review, Wordpool Press, Beyond The Sea Anthology, War Anthology: We Go On, Wilderness House Literary Review, Featured Artist with Quail Bell Magazine. She resides on some distant isle with her novelist husband and two frolicsome imps.
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