Mary Sayler’s poem, Charcoal Portrait of an Actress, was published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags (September 2011) and her work has appeared at the prompts page. She has a new book forthcoming from Hiraeth Press. Stay tuned for details.
The Recipe
By Mary Sayler
I am made of stars, sand, rain.
My fingers flicker
birds,
my feet fins,
my head
an acorn.
If stars implode,
a black hole sucks me.
If rains wash sand,
I am moved.
This earth,
this universe
does not shelter me like
a building but like
skin, bones, blood,
a single cell.
eloquent.