After G Perkins’s ‘here is life that might be death’
Woman the incandescent drop into water
her deference to bow and break bow and break
I am water and swell my seas incarnadine
by moon’s dagger (a smile!)
tonight don’t let me die and die again
My flesh and blood skim this reservoir
cells dividing divining
I have tasted iron and salt
my handprint is wet on the wall
death that is life that is death
Annerliegh Grace McCall is a Sydney born, Melbourne residing writer.