where the myriad of
branches extend like
neurons transmitting
ideas to trigger the inner
chimera. Leaf after leaf
quivering with promises
etched in each vein of
all those lives you could
still live. The shadows cast
to intensify that warm
apple glow dancing
on your irises, eyes
wide open now
the forest has laid
its caressing fingers
over you.
Sarah Mayo’s poetry appears in ‘Here: A Poetry Journal’, the Cardiff 75 Anthology and will be published by Minerva Rising Press and Spell Jar Press. Her flash fiction appears in the Wicked Shadow Press anthology ‘Femme Fatale Flashes’. She edits ‘Valleys Imaginings’, a literary zine in the South Wales Valleys.