Cadralor for rebirth

I.

Prickles under the skin:
stirring back to life
rebirth, awakening 
Alleluia (alleluia)
Amen (amen).

II.

The path, precipitous
is a switchback staircase
its yawning emptiness 
instils more awe
than the high crag.

III.

‘I lost a lot of blood on the table’
she said, ‘I was tabled,’
I said, ‘I was scheduled’
I said ‘no’:
I bleed, I dance.

IV.

Feathers, flowers and silk screens
all those curtain calls
you’re all about the light,
the lighting:
I embrace it all.

V.

Mother! I’m coming. 
Mother! I’m staying behind. 
Your parallel,
your storyteller 
whispering the wind.

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A Cadralor for Easter

Gleam magazine has a call for submissions to Issue 6 at the moment (closing 30th April). Most cadralore they publish are a lot longer than the three-line stanza form I like to write, so I’m playing with stretching it to five-line stanzas. I’ve not submitted this, as perhaps it is more narrative than imagistic, and perhaps there isn’t enough disconnect between each stanza. But it is a poem of Easter, and of rebirth, nonetheless.

I haven’t had much time for either reading or writing on WordPress recently, as I am busy with editing and cover design for the latest EIF publication: Re-create and Celebrate by Cindy Georgakas. Watch this space for the cover reveal, and more exciting news about the book!

Happy Easter to all those who celebrate,

Ingrid