we are like the moon
shrinking
it is only natural
after a hot birth
the violence
of impact
as planets
coalesce
collide
bound
together
bound
to get
cooler
brittle
to break
into fault-
lines that are
at first nothing
more than wrinkles
in time
but turn
into stair-steep
cliffs and
chasms
leaving scars
visible in the void
Louise Longson is widely published in print/online. She is the author of chapbooks Hanging Fire and Songs from the Witch Bottle. In 2023, she won the Kari-Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize with her soon-to-be-published collection These are her thoughts as she falls and was also Pushcart Prize nominated. She works for a charity offering support services to people whose physical and emotional distress is caused by loneliness and social isolation, often rooted in historic trauma. Her poetry brings together her personal and professional experiences, translated through the twin prisms of myth and nature.
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