Time Out
She wonders if she let go how far she would fall. It may get messy. They could be searching for days piecing together a picture that was always missing sky. She steps back climbs inside her ear to think. It cradles her like a moon.
J V Birch is a British-born Australian poet living on Kaurna land in Adelaide. Her poems have been anthologised, exhibited and published in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. She has four chapbooks with Ginninderra Press—Smashed glass at midnight, What the water & moon gave me, A bellyful of roses and Venus—and a full-length collection, more than here. She blogs (occasionally) at www.jvbirch.com.
