GLIA by Louise Mather

chrysalids out of dusk 

           woven, fragile

in astrocytes & debris 

kinesis, electric jawed

           adhesions to stars

sharp, without rest

corrosion, undulating

            far from sea breaking 

willowy rain, leftover 

from war or birth

           bullets, oars, axons

palatable luck of bramble 

as if you want

           the pain, all of it

& mine too much

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Louise Mather is a poet, writer and artist from Northern England and editor of Acropolis Journal. Her pamphlet 'The Dredging of Rituals' features on Black Bough Poetry as book of the month. She was a finalist in the Streetcake Writing Prize and her work is Pushcart and BOTN nominated.