Ethel

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from winter garlic

healing: this month

i am
on a bridge
over a purple bruise river in six inch heels
and a shattered cloak

i hold
my friend the winged boar
i hold
a weak but guiding light
i hold myself
a child haunting my click-clacking steps

i unfurl
the vines of my child hands
protecting fragile seeds of
pink wildflowers
they bloom
they breathe

i hold my friend
the winged boar
also called
Nevers
also called
Possibility: The Pig Who Can Fly
i hold

my nevers
my weak but guiding light
i take one step at a time

blossoms overflow my child hands
i follow the petals
to a field
of sweet summer cornflowers
blue butterflies
and delight