Traversing the Threshold
after Liminal by Helen Ivory
When you forget to sleep
seek the cracks of your home,
how they expand and contract,
how your tread loosens the fabric.
Beware of wolf voices disguised
as cats calling to the moon, and learn
their incantations, how they shape vowels.
Imagine the moon in an off-the-shoulder
number, how your feathers could transform
into a shimmering fan-tail.
Look at the fireflies dance in the distance
as you pontificate your luggage wheeling
the driveway over the dandelions.
York-born Project Manager, Sharon Woodcock, lives in Norwich. She has studied Creative Writing with the Open University, and has poetry published in anthologies by Ink Pantry Publishing and What the Dickens Magazine, online by Kumquat Poetry and forthcoming in Message in a Bottle.