July 2024
Chris Wardle
TheHealingCup@protonmail.com
Bio Note: I work at being happy and grateful, while writing with an eye for wonder, a taste for questions, and a sense of proximity to the Sacred. The community and volunteer facilitators of the Oxford Poetry Library have been instrumental in the growth of my writing, revision, and performance skills, and recently, my work has been published in Amethyst Review; Nowhere Girl; and Suburban Witchcraft.

Staring into the Vortex

Petals,
Hawthorn,
sweep the station forecourt.
eddying with each Spring gust,
like vortices of lost,
landlocked
fish scales.

Fish out of water,
their dancing softness
offering life's transient,
misplaced beauty,
to concrete’s
impermeability.

©2024 Chris Wardle
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