“Souldier” — C.Birde, 1/20

“I feel the grief

in my body,”

she said,

“a weight of tears

unshed,

to be shed.”

So Dawn draped her;

Moon crowned her;

& Foxfire

crept into her heart,

so she might

souldier on

— in light —

through the dark.

— C.Birde, 1/20