#rivermouth

Nature's Hidden Coastal Paradise 🌊💚✨

Lit: Change

the church’s silver your mother / keeps polished in the cupboard / and how your father always / flinches at thunderstorms. / some things that / are unstrung: shoelaces / violins / suspension bridges / hearts—these remember your name / even when you do not. wet fallen / leaves are deadly as ice / on the highway shoulder / after it rains, all the / dead children of summer / scattered like roadkill, gutted & slick. / the shining earth when the lightning / has passed, pooling with life, / unwinding the bones of trees / across power lines. the metal taste / of silver in your mouth, / copper in your throat, / channeling the electric shock / away from your heart.