settling in one more time in my bones resting the body in this light the skin is glittered with salt the air like silk on the surface i am here i am whole i am here i am one the heartbeat and the breath play the song of life. let us be together though we [...]
Poets
I Do Not Know This Swelling
Poem by Melissa Fry Beasley
May 16, 2013
I do not know this swelling like lament or rain collapsing inwards from skin to soul filled with the silent noise of loneliness grown to gaping like the open mouth of death calling There are days without light but never nights without day I am only an echo hushed like a tree with leaves [...]


