Kate Forsyth

I know     it is frightening        my darling          your body is seeping blood             like a sewer runnel               from the centre of you                  red like the trail of some wounded creature                     leading in streaks and smears                       straight back to the secret                           the

Ending & beginning Naked at last Ocean of fire within Plainsong of the crone A wise woman   a wild woman Undaunted to the last Spitting sparks Exalted