Image of Living Dead Woman - Welter in Mudlark Poster No. 211 (2024)

The Living Dead Woman Gives into the Welter

humidity invokes humility :: hair-that-stops-growing 
frizz :: cellulite marbling :: whence :: the galvanized  
bucket lists ::  young doctors who prod :: schist  
of calcium :: phosphorus :: this :: how she’s fallen ::

but for all her galled limbs :: she risks ankle-turn,  
leaf-rot :: to brisk up the deer trail :: nicked by pine
needle :: close to nightfall :: wends beyond chatter
of chickadee :: the yellow-breasted tit :: to disrupt

fiddlehead’s spiral :: algorithmic air current :: whist :: 
energy defies entropy :: how she knows that breathing 
isn’t all there is :: despite blue-bottle wind :: not all
saints resist :: the antipodal, underside :: clouds shift

despite roots’ attempts to pull her under ::  
winter still exists on far side of summer



The Living Dead Woman Sonnets