Enchanted by Outside : Joanne Key

Enchanted by Outside


You peg the last of your failing sun
into a groundsheet and twilight nestles
on your skin, settles around your feet.

Now only silence matters as it flutters
into your living space, warming its wings
on your thoughts of a fireplace.

You stare, wide-eyed into the night.
Here, is loneliness and there are processes
to go through, adjustments to make

in a place where it is normal to see
shadows on every corner and a storm
hovering, about to unleash in the kitchen.

There is always a threat breathing
down your neck and the stress of your home
hanging by a thread, clinging to ground

that’s barely level. You look at the world
on the inside with your eyes shut tight.
The outside opens its mouth and feeds you

foxes and owl-speak, rocks you to sleep,
so slowly you feel your coat of darkness
thickening into fur, soft and deep.
~ Joanne Key



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