Retrieval In a pool beneath the sun-stained glass seal-sleek she drifts weightless trusting the water. She’s slipped the grip of a hurried life and it’s larceny, remembering where she began. This body in liquid, suspended― corded to sun corded to air slowing the ending by finding the beginning, floating in this sacred pause. No longer parched and starved― breath by breath breath by breath lifting to light, she retrieves her skin. Lucy Griffith Happiest on a tractor named Mabel, Lucy Griffith lives on a ranch beside the Guadalupe River near Comfort, Texas. As a retired psychologist and rancher, she explored the imagined life of the Burro Lady of Far West Texas in her debut poetry book. We Make a Tiny Herd was published by Main Street Rag and has gone on to win the Wrangler Prize for Poetry as well as the Willa Literary Award for Poetry. Lucy received a Bread Loaf Scholarship in Poetry. Wingbeat Atlas, poems and images of our citizens of the sky, has just been released by FlowerSong Press.
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Alarie Tennille
7/10/2023 03:16:44 am
Thanks, Lucy. I needed that. I found myself getting more and more relaxed with every line.
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