Turn so the floor marries the ceiling,
dropping from the wrinkles of the brain
a seed
what if I hadn’t…
oh, that time I said…
did I remember…
Plant it in the valley of your palm,
where the skin is soft and damp with tears,
where it can nestle against its siblings,
who emerged from the outcome of
anxious fingers and sharp nails.
If by morning it blossoms a pomegranate tree,
cut the dead branches with heavy shears
and let the rotten fruit feed the soil.
About the Author
Annalise is a hybrid writer who received her MFA from Columbia College Chicago. She is the social media manager for Unwoven Literary Magazine and the brand strategist for Juxtapose Podcast. Her work is published in Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose, and Marsh Hawk Press.
About the Artist
Landis Blair, author and illustrator of Vers le Sud, The Night Tent, and The Envious Siblings: and Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes. Illustrator of the award-winning graphic novel The Hunting Accident: A True Story of Crime and Poetry, written by David Carlson. A Member of The Order of the Good Death. Based out of Chicago, Illinois.
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