matutinal/vespertine
Bailey Grey & Danielle Rose
Finalist of the 2019 Collaboration Contest
| matutinal: i know now / the ghosts
in the trees can fade / their moans give way to birdsong / dew drips golden from the leaves / i can only breathe / when i awaken without mourning / these stars easily acquiesce / winking out behind sunshine / as i am slipping out of bed / i forgive / my transgressions / scars / read as stretch marks now / inevitable growth / let the dew evaporate now / humidity rise / a vessel for my prayers / beads of sweat i taste the salt / upon my skin |
tell stories / remember how bodies
drip with daylight / & these things like the evening’s brightest star / glowing dream / as if we could only gape askew like so many fireflies / i want to wake alight as supernova / they claim that they like these dust motes / hide themselves inside a frozen pond / i am not idealization / i am so many ideas concerning a body / like these avalanches / under snow-tumble is a way to tunnel through / i want to be thrown around by waves / salt dripping / vespertine / meaning in gloom & i am a star chart / tracing an open sea |
Bailey Grey is a bipolar software developer living in Virginia with her grumpy old cat. Her work has been published in Crab Fat Magazine, Dovecote Magazine, and Ghost City Review, and she can be found on twitter @BaileyGWrites.
Danielle Rose lives in Massachusetts. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in The Shallow Ends, Pidgeonholes, Barren Magazine & Glass Poetry.