Cicada Remnants
A husk
without its own energy,
momentum;
aimless in its
wind-tumbling
as it floats away on the water
light and airy
carried along by buoyancy
to one day sink back
into the earth
thick with sleep
saturated
and purposeful.
~
Loralee Clark's latest chapbook, Solemnity Rites (Prolific Pulse Press, 2025) is an account of reimagined myths and truths of who we are as humans and how we live our histories. She has a chapbook forthcoming, Neolithic Imaginings: Mythical Explorations of the Unknown (Kelsay Press, 2026). Clark resides in Virginia; her website is sites.google.com/view/loraleeclark.
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