This glint

Anne Elvey

                adrift on wind
          anchored by stem

what shift into 
                              sway                 
                                                  life agrees

                amid the savour
          of quiet dry

a moment         
                         between 
                                       La Niña’s humid 

                granting and avian
          orchestration for 

this days’ 
                                       tangent                        
                                                    to a holy 

                when i breathe 
          the thin curve 

of non-belonging &     
                                        turn    
                                                  to cherish 

                without expectation 
          of return                

when bodies 
                                query                
                                           what openness 

                it takes in the 
          already-taken          

to be a visitor     who is carefully     at leaf

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Anne Elvey lives and writes on Boonwurrung Country in bayside Melbourne. Her poetry publications include: Obligations of voice (2021), On arrivals of breath (2019), White on White (2018) and Kin (2014). She holds honorary appointments at Monash University and University of Divinity.

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