òran cianalas

—Eartha Davis

We are stung

by wanting &

everything

swells: rib, cuticle,

the four sparrows

seeking miracle

in our shared

breast / where is it

that wanting

lives? / it lives

where we

carve it / your face

seeps with

it — yolks, then

shells / (love

upon river

upon

love) / now,

we are wounded with

underswell / we must

have followed

a heart / dripping,

yes, &

pouring / how heart

can sing to us

like a reminder of

animal / how heart

can touch wanting

& say You.

EARTHA wishes to live gently, kindly, & most certainly by a river. She placed second in the 2022 International Woorilla Poetry Prize Youth Section & has been nominated for Best of the Net, with work published or forthcoming in Wildness, Frozen Sea, Minarets, South Florida Poetry Journal, JMWW, Arboreal Magazine, Discretionary Love, the Basilisk Tree, ELJ Editions, Stirling Review, Sour Cherry Magazine, Revolute, & Eunoia Review, among others. She is a poetry editor at Dipity Literary Magazine, Verdant Journal, & the Expressionist Literary Magazine. She wonders where all the birds are flying to.