Each Awaits its Rising, by Devon Balwit

Involuntary Painting, photography by Eliza McNally (USA). Contemporary.

Each Awaits Its Rising

Peeling paint lifts into landscape,
    reeds like a legion of spearheads 

splitting still water.  Shore fronds lean 
    to catch a glimpse of themselves 

as they expire.  Clouds bring together 
    jagged edges, a clapping before 

thunderclaps, a closing of hasps.  Bark labia 
    round into dark lips, trunk
    
opening a birth canal to light.  Close by,
    a lone figure considers, perhaps 

stepping, perhaps readying for a leap, 
    each form awaiting 

its continued rising, offering itself 
    to wind and to weather.

Devon Balwit

Devon Balwit is a poet and educator from Portland, Oregon. She has a chapbook, Forms Most Marvelous, forthcoming from dancing girl press (summer 2017). Her recent poems have appeared in numerous print/on-line journals, among them: Oyez, Red Paint Hill, The Ekphrastic Review, Serving House Journal, The Journal of Applied Poetics, Emerge Literary Journal, Timberline Review, Trailhead Magazine VCFA, The Prick of the Spindle, and Permafrost.