Six of Pentacles

excerpt from marsh-river-raft-feather
by Clarissa Álvarez and Petero Kalulé (petals)

the public is the private
    all are ruptured, breached,
                  violable

This breaching enmarshes it undoes the very
human axiomatics of “home”, “shelter”, or
protection. It moves toward a sense of
infinite abundance that even  this verse
cannot conceive of

                2
              tarry unfixed, (yet perceptibly)
                          as leaf
                              as feather

not being singular, but
      being flitteringly with,   b rushes of
                  being to, being within
                                  being withheld :

wings are g-  
race notes

“forward” “backward” “sideways” “ahead” all become irrelevant positionings
         river-reading is its own non position
                 words   like waves sliver
                       all at once in all directions

Clarissa Álvarez (they/them) is a poet, writer, & storyteller who belongs to the Rio Bravo/Grande. Petero Kalulé (petals) (she/they) is a composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist living on the hidden river Effra in London.