Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Work

Editor's Poem

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Text

Content Warning: dark themes, blood

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Work

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness

We never talked about the snow,

the way it drenched the earth

half-way between knowing you.

We would not sleep on the mountain,

nor consume the violet lake,

the way the sky turned metallic,

my blood was yellow,

the insides of my eyes –

I could not succumb,

though we tried

unravelling splintered seams

from bloodless silhouettes,

I could not wait for the centaur,

nor find the immortal tree –

if I was the paradox of the ophion,

what were you –

but the shape of night,

decomposing mist

the crow sunk into.

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Work

Louise Mather is a poet and writer from Northern England and the creator and editor of Acropolis Journal. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines such as Fly on the Wall Press, streetcake magazine, The Cabinet of Heed, Hecate Magazine, Crow & Cross Keys, Feral, Dust Poetry Magazine, Not Deer Magazine and Nymphs. She writes about ancestry, rituals, endometriosis, fatigue and mental health. She is also editor of the cat-themed anthology Feline Utopia, published earlier this year. You can find her on Twitter @lm2020uk

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Work

Cover Artwork: The Lone Centaur by Serena Piccoli

Serena Piccoli (she\her) is an Italian poet\playwright\photographer\charlatan\cyclist\performer\feminist\lesbian\human rights activist\traveller\swimmer\chocolate lover\ Twitter: @piccoli_serena https://serenapiccoli.wixsite.com/serenapiccoli

Louise Mather - The Shape of Darkness: Work