Artwork © Deta Galloway

 

Inside

Inside
Molds
In relief
Pushing
Fossil fronds
Of your teeth
And your winged
Finger tips
I search for you
On lands
Thru the light forests
Seeing striated markings

Sula
Vide’ Culpa
Swollinga
Sullinga
From shoaled Jackets geospatia
Of Pitching
Pulpits
Memory
The photographias
Of
En-vased
Flowers
Shoots
As enraptured p’alus

rest…

And then you will see
A Vanguard Bird
Dances
That wee sing…
From that…
Mating song
Over the hillside
Moving
Faster
As we go
In gratitude

…and, in the latitude
Moving by baric
Songs of old breathing

And all time
Becomes sleep

And breath
Recast

Choriscu
Faster.
Towards the clearing

Hold me strong
With the strength of our history
Hold me
And forever
I am
Among your
Clutched

…flourish

of ancient love
Restore my being in living forms
Waking fossils of dormant rest
Enter then and
Emerge

Anime.
Mata
Anime’shon
Choose me
For your image
In facsimile
Lace and chord like
Living vines
You just me
As you entrust me
Within life
And elemental strands
I am like Us
The electrical current
Running directly
To groundings
You have found
The playful balls
That explodes in air
From our fascination of fire works in the sky
I am the sounds
In our parades

Entered again in our age
Where your tongue
Is the writing pen
From erasures
I am subsumed
Sweet encrusted
Candy
Blown like glass
From dreams
Dawn’ misty coolness
Display me
Upon your sugared tongue
Drink
And swallow me up
Yes I am swallowed up
From the phylogeny
Of your depiction

Numo ano
Terminus.
Look past ridges and the tunnels
  to see and remember you must keep walking
And all that you are
And All that you eat
Have
Swallowed. You up
In your
Organs of life
As you return
To the lowering
Of the ground
I am still here
Help but see me
As THEY are
Your
  intermingled
Of me

In amphibious
Throes
Of your dance
With water
And land
You still breathe
From all underwater
That is the darker and deeper parts of depth of your clavicular lines
In your body

As you are
Your dream
Keeps hoisting you
Remember
We are
Us.

 

Poet Deta Galloway is a self-described “Multimedia Artist, whose other pursuits include, painting, music, storytelling, professional dance, photography and ceramics. She was originally born in the Jamaica West Indies who emigrated to the United States at the age of 18. A professional nurse, she currently divides her time between Massachusetts and Georgia.