I see
A girl in a yellow dress
Paint-stained nail beds
A spackle of spaghetti mess
Palms hold eyes that beg for peace
As waters tip fishing boats into quaky seas
The wind arrives with a gentle hello
Spirals and tousles soft blonde locks
Traverses the gaping prospect of an open window
Dissolves before it is ever caught
By eyes that care only to look up
Blind to the draped chiffon that wraps around a mother’s shoulder
Like a prayer
Forehead grazes cheek
And sighs breathe plumes of ethereal air
We strain to decipher the mysterious lines in seagull feathers
And the mythical stories painted in the spaces between stars
Our human faces flayed by the fierce light
Of the luminiferous aether
As andromeda’s lonely song echoes from afar
A son’s arm lovingly wraps around his father’s neck
Reaching further and further
Never too far
Art by Kėkė 