"Dappled in the Watercolors" by Lindsey Warren

Dappled in the Watercolors

Dappled in the watercolors of emergence
you,
Earlywake,
your dewflanks harnessed
along the sands of body
in the dimensions of brights
through which you tear —
you hoof my chest, a crushed
limit, and run
its broken rivers away into
the corners of light-
coming and still-
coming.

My opal breed, in eye
distilled,
saddled, rushed
into ringing lungbells.

Lindsey Warren

Lindsey Warren is a graduate of Cornell University’s MFA program. She has been published in Rabid Oak, Josephine Quarterly, American Literary Review, and Hobart, among others, and her poetry manuscript Unfinished Child is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil in 2020. Lindsey has been a finalist for the Delaware Literary Connection Prize and the Joy Harjo Prize.

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