February 2022

Hungry Imagination

February 12, 2022by DyAnne Korda

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All our lives we’ve lived in a cold climate,

bones breathing in midnight’s fertile darkness.

Imagining appearances (Have we met before?)

Hovering in shadows (Do you believe in ghosts?)

How could we ever know to keep returning—

after flooding, after fire, like seeds

floating through ink-stained skies

to find their exact place.

Here. Hidden in your hungry imagination

lies this sacred woodland,

just like it used to be—only small enough

to hold in the palm of your hand.