Courtney Leigh

SWIMMING THE WITCH

resurrection of the blighted heart

i release my baby to the surface

of another cold stained body

soul flies to the ethereal barn

blood-shank & tankard

barn doors fling open & pour

a breath of air means worse death

than of the water that consumes me

when breath of air means

i’m hollowed out & guilty

it’s not enough merely to survive

to hide in the woods wild incarnate

half-hanging off the plank

of this world & the next

my purple bloated body

in reflections of the light

a cross that confounds me

Courtney Leigh is the author of the chapbook, “the unrequited <3<3 of red riding hood & her lycan lover (Dancing Girl Press, 2016).” She is a Kitchen Witch brewing healing magick for C&C Apothecary, & is The Bowhunter of White Stag Publishing.