Talking to the Grainy Darkness
What is your destination?
Blossoming.
How will you get there?
By daring to become larger.
What will you take with you?
Rain.
April.
Sunlight.
What will you do when you are afraid?
Fear is the door of air.
Rage is the door that eats
all oxygen. I will pass through one
and breathe. I will enter the other
and become flame.
What will you do if the cold returns?
Crouch beside the earth
and wait.
What will you be when you arrive?
A green pulse.
Blind hands.
Weightless fluff and froth.
What will you do then?
Turn myself inside out
and step into wind.
PRISCILLA FRAKE is the author of Correspondence, a book of epistolary poems. Read more.