by Sarah Law
Only breath
& the rain –
fluid world
falling
cold sting
shuttering
open up
wide eye
to a new
translucency –
slick haired
graceling –
neophyte
at fifty
years
days
since
your Lord
is raised
heartbeat
in everything –
fine thread
loosened –
aureole
shot through
dove-white –
sunlit –
Sarah Law lives in London and is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She has poems in The Windhover, St Katherine Review, America, Psaltery & Lyre, Soul-Lit, Heart of Flesh and elsewhere. Her latest collection, Thérèse: Poems is published by Paraclete Press. She edits Amethyst Review, an online journal for new writing engaging with the sacred.
