“Dancing with Daisies” © Bonnie Matthews Brock

 

Thereupon

You gave me the task to fill the blank
episodes of your being.A new errand
has always goosebumped my entires.
But in reality I haven’t ever done any
kind of filling. I have let my hollows
get interlaced within themselves. Now
they’ve attained a complexity of brain
cells. Though I allowed the cosmos
dump its wild calendars inside me.
I know when the last leaf of the
hibiscus fell. This happened when
my unsullied adulthood flashed in front
the crowd of void. Thereupon my body
has been pouring out Decembers, into
the last metaphor for broken blooms.
Maybe, what you want as receivings
from me, has a connection to this like
the silence of night library with the
silence of crammed specta-case for
this. For this realization felt like a
formula, I byhearted to cross the
road & river. I reminisced that you
too had to unbelong to your story.
The gravity of your efforts existing
hitherto like the unstomached hoarfrost
over the endless grass. Its an undoing
of a dream that went nowhere. This
happened and I found myself standing
for a metaphor, that never came my
station. Aloneness startled me stooping
down with a black star in hand. I couldn’t
fill the space between us thereafter.

 

Purbasha Roy is a writer from Jharkhand, India. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly Review, SAND, Iron Horse Literary Review and The Margins.

Bonnie Matthews Brock is a Florida-based photographer, and retired school psychologist. She loves hiking the urban and woodland trails of “anywhere” (and pausing often to shoot photos) with her very patient husband (and often collaborator), Ted. Her images have been featured on the covers of magazines such as Ibbetson Street, Wild Roof Journal, Poesy Magazine, Humana Obscura, and Arkansas Review; as well as on the pages of publications such as Oddball Magazine, Ember Chasm Review, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Beaver Magazine, and Lateral. Her works are archived at institutions such as Poets House NYC, Brown University, and Harvard University. You can view more of Bonnie’s images on Instagram @bonniematthewsbrock.