Simon Ravenscroft

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somnambulance

balletic charm
of a December wasp
in an indoor space
fussing
amidst pistachios
& low-angled light

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whenever I’m alone with you it’s like
I’m stood under willow trees

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all the birds & other fauna
moving through the world like shades

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what I want to say to you is
there’s no way to say it
yet

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thought draws a winding line
to a green shoot, nurtured
& growing without will or mind

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find me a desiring
seed to water, inside
& I promise I’ll water it

Simon Ravenscroft has published poems recently in Osmosis Press, Heavy Feather Review, The Penn Review, Apocalypse Confidential, Atrium, ē·rā/tiō, Soft Union, Trampoline, Full House Literary, and other places. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. His website is: simonravenscroft.haus