Nature’s way
Burnt gorse sits
like an upturned claw,
defleshed,
apparitional.
A white stag moves as strobe
through rib and myth,
in memory of yellow.
The geography of the soul
cannot be erased.
Emily Freeborn lives and works in the New Forest in Hampshire, England. Her poetry recently appeared in Out There Literary Magazine, Wildfire Words, Littoral Magazine, and she was long-listed for the Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Award (2023) and the Hedgehog Press Little Black Book Competition (2024).
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