Fallows and Fault Lines (I)
“Flashes / of nacre rising from silt; another name / for the buried mother.”
Christine Barkley is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest. Her poems and personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Manhattan Review, The Journal, The Massachusetts Review, Salamander, The Indianapolis Review, and Little Patuxent Review, among others. She can be found on twitter @oneiresthesia.
“Flashes / of nacre rising from silt; another name / for the buried mother.”