Tapestries by Louise Mather

Tapestries
 
 the glass arc of the sun turned
 to lantern-dark
 
 laburnum trees stilled to extrinsic
 night-drawn statues
 
 threads of flames, an oil afterglow,
 shoals of infinite tapestries

here is what I remember:
 a cloak, the sound of the waves,

mother fox, blue wool, coral,
 snow, pulse, wild rivers
 
 where space floods out –
 succumbs in one flash
 
 of hawk's eye, spectrolite, old royal,
 an entirety of universes haemorrhaging
 
 to strings, recursions
 I am stitched, consumed by
 
 your beauty, my womb –
 a single miracle

Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and founding editor of Acropolis Journal. A finalist in the Streetcake Poetry Prize, her work is published in The North, Broken Sleep Books, Acumen and Cape Magazine. Her debut pamphlet ‘The Dredging of Rituals’ was published in 2021.

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