from: “Gazing”¹

quicksilver

gathering

on

the

surface

flicked

and

flashed

one

animates

the

whole

weeping

ribbons

of

random

voice

stones

with

wings

bitter

leaf


hand

to

the

horizon

rising

over

her

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¹ "This poem only uses words found in Virginia Woolf’s final novel Between The Acts, though the narrative thread is my own.