QUELL… QUELL

tectonic shift
traceable non
my slackest heart
escapades; fills
the empty balcony—

(weight of each eyelid
its brief dream

                        who volunteers to guard

            my artifice? my sheen, extract…

promise to read the omens (forever, harness
the future before it is fracked

movement mine
in tireless orbit
modicum of wholeness
/supply the energy that becomes
/coveted

    to achieve such balance in the torso
                                                contort me featherweight no


                                                                                    / i twist it all to wreaths

                                    &)anchor me in symmetry
                        wrest me from it too

Sophia Marina is a poet from the Texas borderlands. Her work has been published in 4x4, Annotations, and Variant Literature. She is currently an MFA candidate in Poetry at Brown University.