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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

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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