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Opening

  • Writer: Nic
    Nic
  • Apr 4, 2022
  • 1 min read

Sometimes, it's fragility, emptying at a careless crack.

Sometimes, it's a key turning, opening a cabinet of ribs.

Sometimes, it's just too much pressure against the shell,

pushing until the seed splits & spills

newness out & up like shoots, thirsty,

and so we water them.

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