from my grounding beside your gigantic & fecund foot-belly—
i’m not sure that what i see
spread out against the iridescent blue-black above
isn’t somehow a macroscopic mirror of the inside of my own skull:
a massive-scale display of passageways splicing
into a trillion dendrites
all terminating in cathodes
attracting charged particles from the heavens
i am magnetized
heart & arms & cold-singed cheek
drawn toward your hillock of winter-roughened greys
softening
to complete the circuit
that you can dispel my darkest currents
–
Stephanie L. Harper lives in Indianapolis, IN. Harper is the author of two chapbooks: This Being Done and The Death’s-Head’s Testament. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Slippery Elm, The High Window (Featured American Poet), Panoply, Isacoustic*, Literati Magazine, Moonchild Magazine, and elsewhere.