Jan 16, 2021

Aponia by Louise Mather

Aponia
 

When you have already discovered
 
that you are different
 

 
and the mirror is just another
 
mask. You look at strangers under
 

 
the grey world, their sense
 

 
of aponia; to fathom
 
how they hold everything in
 

 
or if they have anything
 
that needs to be held, if you could

offer it to them, with a pastel
 
notion - a braid of aura
 

 
from the crack
 
in the woods.

Louise Mather is a writer and poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her work/upcoming work in Fly on the Wall Press, Streetcake Magazine, The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Idle Ink. She is currently writing about places, rituals and endometriosis.