Window

December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

Window

December 2006–January 2007, no. 287

See,
how this slow tide
tugs
and sighs against
the flank of patient night –
the driving pulse that
aches towards the
fleck
of dawn then
shifts,
and curls around skin’s soft
warmth, that quiet space –

See how all
things might be
refracted
here
in this small round,
in this brief
threading
of a needle’s eye,
how all the waiting world
might be
quilted
and unravelled here.

Rose Lucas

Rose Lucas lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri Country. She is a poet, critic and academic at Victoria University, Melbourne/Naarm; her most recent collection is Increments of the Everyday (Puncher and Wattmann, 2022). She is founding editor at Liquid Amber Press.