LAURIE KOENSGEN
OPENED POMEGRANATE
You come to me
with palms of scarlet
a nest of garnets
rubies pooled
alveoli breathing
imperceptibly as jewels
This is the still point
of the turning world
OUR GOLDEN SPIRAL
Because each new
cell is formed after a turn:
the pinecone, the hurricane,
the nautilus, the womb.
Because we love
each other even after every
turn, we are coiled together
on this sunlit afternoon.
Laurie Koensgen lives and writes in Ottawa, Canada. Recent publishers include Literary Review of Canada, The Ex-Puritan, The Madrigal, Blue Moon Review, The New Quarterly, and Twin Bird Review. Laurie is a founding member of the Ruby Tuesday Writing Group. Her fourth chapbook, this clingstone love, is with Pinhole Poetry.