LIGHT AND STRIPS OF SKY

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End of summer, the long grass

has started to fade, bleached.

Through it wade two children,

pale blond as the stalks that sway

around them.

 

The sun reaches one tentative arm

to stroke their hair

and everything is gilt and glimmer.

Even my deep-sea dark cannot dim

the glittering beings that hang on

those small frames.

 

They know nothing of endings,

can't see that one is close.

They are light and strips of sky, 

golden, fleeting,

 

something I can't anchor, 

that will shine beyond my reach,

dawn on a distant horizon.

 

I will be stalwart in the dark

and whenever they return

they'll be carrying the summer.

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BIO:

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Anna Maughan lives in Bristol, UK. The overarching themes of Anna's poetry are chronic illness,  trauma/mental health issues, and motherhood, and the way that these things intersect in her life. Her kids have saved her countless times. She has been featured in Humana Obscura, Dust, Ink Sweat and Tears, and Anti-Heroin Chic, amongst others.

 

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