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Camellia by John Swain

White Camellia. Photo Courtesy: John Swain 
CAMELLIA

Columns stand on columns,
the high arch flares light
like white torchfire
illuminates the marble hill,
you transform the enclosure,
you filigree clear sleeves
of imagined air 
to gather camellias
the winter sky emptied,
bled in ashes on the snow.
Winter. Photo Courtesy by John Swain

John Swain lives in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France. His most recent chapbook, The Daymark, was published by the Origami Poems Project.  Additional information may be found at www.john-swain.com. 

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Your Light will Break

       By John Swain

YOUR LIGHT WILL BREAK 

Then your light will break
the amber hive
upon the tree
across the path
of sky in the flowering vines,
you remain in awakening,
powdered stones shimmer
honeyed to drink
through the beaming water,
light fires around the oil jar,
I tense a canvas sheet
to refuge
the mystery of your solitude,
we unfurl the shelter door,
we watch the burnt sky turn back
into the infinite sun.
From Public Domain

John Swain lives in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, France.  His most recent chapbook, The Daymark, was published by the Origami Poems Project.

PLEASE NOTE: ARTICLES CAN ONLY BE REPRODUCED IN OTHER SITES WITH DUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO BORDERLESS JOURNAL

Click here to access the Borderless anthology, Monalisa No Longer Smiles

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