Not even the wind creates love songs equally,
For a passerby, lifting a stubborn edge of joy
From this ruddy earth with frail hands,
gathering a whole heart in secret labour —
Hearing the great call across fallow fields.
The aspens empty of gold, mothering the driftwood
— language we will soon disagree on.
For now, we’re distracted, painting landscapes,
clothless. River rushes aglow, stroking the violet sky.
Point to it all in secret memoir — the infidel’s soundtrack.
From city to cliff, sparrows as quavers — dying on a dark score.
Wet highwires humming a sad anthem of addiction.
Its vibrato matching the thunder we keep running towards.
Point to it all — and learn to love whatever the lightning strikes.
Vikki C. (Twitter: @VWC_Writes) is a British-born, ‘Best of the Net’ nominated writer and musician. She is the author of THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press, 2022) and WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press, 2024).
Vikki’s poetry and stories are internationally published/forthcoming in venues such as* Psaltery & Lyre, The Inflectionist Review, EcoTheo Review, Dust Poetry Magazine, Amethyst Review, ONE ART Poetry, Stone Circle Review, Ballast Journal, The Hyacinth Review, New Feathers Anthology, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, DarkWinter Lit, Vita & the Woolf, The Belfast Review, Acropolis Journal, One Hand Clapping, The Winged Moon, Sontag Mag, Boats Against The Current, Nightingale & Sparrow, Origami Poems, Jerry Jazz Musician, Mythic Picnic, Fevers Of The Mind, Ellipsis Zine, Across The Margin, The Write-In, Literary Revelations, Loft Books, Lazuli Literary Group, Salò Press and Igneus Press*, among others.
