Umbilica
a plane of amber
consecrated
sunlight and the zephyr
watched over
the source
of ambience
every thought and moment
and molecule
a garland of
hieroglyphs
a lapse
in existence
as though there was
nothing before
by a wormhole
presumed destroyed
an anemone with
my hands and this face
flooding away
a delicate glissando
we listen to the coasts
the colonnades
ascending the lacuna
bright tether
to far sublime galactic
I could never forget
embroidered now I am
with pieces of you
Louise Mather is a poet from Northern England. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk and her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, Streetcake Magazine, The Cabinet of Heed, Versification, Crow & Cross Keys and Lanke Review. She writes about motherhood, ancestry, rituals, endometriosis and mental health, and is editor of the cat-themed anthology Feline Utopia.