Love in a spell of summer rain
like cascading jewel-
drops
the drooped leaves
pour fluid magic
on this enchanted hour
in the dry-dark
shadows of the wych elm
our bodies conjure
the graceful arc
of a weighted flower
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 Pushcart Prize nominated. She works for a charity that offers 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.
Twitter @LouisePoetical https://witchbottlepoetry.wordpress.com/
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