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LOUISE MATHER

Protection

Where are we but in a poem, swallowing rocks. The first time I found it I didn't tell anyone. Oil drips off us, like birth, gods shaped from death. I do not believe in anything or the infinite way I have adored myself to you is like unscrewing the world backwards. Horus spits into the sky. Everything falls to pieces. The moon finds its way back to us.

Louise Mather is a writer from Northern England and editor of Acropolis Journal. A finalist in the Streetcake Prize and Pushcart nominated, her work is published in The North, The Interpreter's House, Lucy Writers Platform, Fly on the Wall, Broken Sleep, Acumen and Dust Poetry Magazine. Her pamphlet The Dredging of Rituals was published in 2021.

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