surviving frozen
in the shell of abandoned
wing shivers of red
hatching on empty
fragility of hoping
spring will rise from ash
a featherless bird
i fly the ice of winter
searching for freedom
Susie Clevenger 2021
surviving frozen
in the shell of abandoned
wing shivers of red
hatching on empty
fragility of hoping
spring will rise from ash
a featherless bird
i fly the ice of winter
searching for freedom
escaping
eden
where
misogyny’s apple
grows
from pointed tongues
angel
of mercy
flying
a needle sky
clouded with corpses
butterfly
pressed beneath glass
caught
by Eden’s net
©Susie Clevenger 2021