Apex
Black woman, apex
Thighs and mind of thunder
Grounded, solid
Catches me in her stratospheric eyeline
in the future sight of higher love.
The mountainous everything of her
So bright I can barely behold.
I hide in the shade of her lashes
Awe-struck, knee-fallen, parched
Reflected in salt water
The mountainous everything of her
Of us – so bright I can barely behold.
Lalah-Simone Springer is a poet and speculative fiction writer from Dagenham. (she/they). Lalah was long-listed for the Merky New Writers Prize in 2021. Lalah has been published in Onyx Magazine, Marble Poetry Magazine, on the ANTHEMS podcast and more. linktr.ee/lalahsimone