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
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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.