4

Flown



I am bent backward
a weed in the wind,
lotus center
suspended midair
I belly crawl
in the silver dusk
curled into the earth--this soft machine
a dust-swaddled bed of bones




by Carly Bryson

Carly Bryson lives in Houston, Texas and has had her poetry featured in Shine, Calliope Nerve, ETC, Poets Against War and Carcinogenic Poetry.