Anemone
Such simple chemistry unlocks
a bulb's code – water, light
earth, air – so you can hold its flower;
like this wood anemone
cupped in my hand, for you to see.
What makes the heart more than
a living pump, this animated lump
of vein and blood?
What kind of occult key
can bare its bud
to occupy a season of its own
as if it had been dormant,
not a stone?
A constant love like these
winter anemones.
Katerina Neocleous co-edits the quarterly poetry magazine Obsessed With Pipework and her debut pamphlet is Wish. She has been published in many poetry journals and anthologies. In 2019 she was commissioned to make a short film about her poetry, as one of ten artists, for a national museum & art gallery. Her full collection is forthcoming from Flarestack Publishing.
Beautiful.