Azure Fire
In the azure fire
Broken heart cries its tears unseen
Brittle bones float like winter twigs
Bottles without messages
Powerful crests heave you ashore
All that wearies you
Sandblasted from your back
On grains of glass
Mind and spirit rise clean
Marianne Tefft is a poet and voiceover reader who daylights as a Montessori teacher on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. Her poems appear in print and online in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., India, Serbia and Sint Maarten. She is the author of the poetry collections Full Moon Fire (2022) and Moonchild (2022).
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