About Me
- Deborah Harvey Poetry
- Bristol , United Kingdom
- I'm co-founder of the Leaping Word Poetry Consultancy, which provides advice for poets on writing, editing and publishing, as well as qualified counselling support for those exploring personal issues in their work - https://theleapingword.com. My sixth poetry collection, Love the Albatross, is now available from Indigo Dreams or directly from me.
Saturday 9 April 2011
Earth Stars
Earth Stars
From the chronicles of trees
she wants monsters:
baleful Destroying Angels,
stellar brides of hell,
all innocence and virulence
in petticoats and veil,
or troops of gleaming Death Caps,
goose-stepping through leaves,
marshalling for massacre
in copses, killing fields, as if
escape clutched in her hand might gift
illusory control.
In forests damp and warm,
in thickets blanketed by spores,
the Prince with Devil's Fingers
knows their secret, loamy holes.
He can smell them, see them, feel them swelling
opening the ground,
thrusting through the litter
with a hungry, crackling sound.
He finds her Velvet Shanks and Blushers,
puts an Amethyst Deceiver in her hand.
In the sultry, starless dark,
she'll settle for a zodiac
of flesh and pearls and earth.
Deborah Harvey © 2009, 2011
Poem from my collection Communion, to be published shortly by Indigo Dreams, with Cerne Giant and Stinkhorn by Dru Marland.
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Beautifully written. Earthy and filled with scents.
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