MercyIn Cuttlefish: Western Australian Poets

Mercy

The sky opens, an exclamation
so blue that all I can do
is see it
and wonder
at its being:

Is it the ocean’s dream of itself, in flight?
Does it rise from us or does it rest? On us?
A blanket so light we do not know we are covered.

What it is to walk to the shops today
under such a tender immensity,
even the sorrow
that sits like a stone in my heart,
softens—a fist, unclenching.

Miriam Wei Wei Lo

First published in Cuttlefish: Western Australian Poets, Roland Leach (Ed.), Sunline Press, 2023, p. 43.

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