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Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer. Her poetry has recently appeared in Lyrical Somerville in The Somerville Times, The Cafe Review, Poetry Bay, The Horror Zine, Star*Line, Good Fat Poetry Zine, and more. Her poetry books Dear Deepest Ghost and This Scarlet Dancing are available on Amazon. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.net.
Persistence
of sea grass
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Meg Smith
Sing to me
from the
marshes
in the flash
of scarlet wings
black feathers
falling
for a heart
is not
so undone
by a song
or the sinking
of a dark
meadow
beneath
the reeds
The blood orphan
Standing
in a sun
little more
than paper,
white and
white
but not
enough
to banish
the slivering bones.
Who is this
phantom-child,
some rickets,
some vial
of cells
joining cells.
There is
no way forward.
She takes
nothing
but your
name.
— Meg Smith
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These searing poems managed to chill me despite the great economy of language. Beautiful work.