Ivory

Your fingers
-    mine,
so thin.

Vine
climbs up,
in heavy braids.

Coils love the
marble
mezzanine.

Cold
under your fingers,
cold licks on ivory.

Your fluttering eyes
-    mine,
among the

malachite and
howlite,
cold licks on ivory.

 

Anna Shirshova (she/her) is a poet who studies and lives in London. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in The Writers’ Block, WinglessDreamer, Blue Daisies Journal, and W.E.I.R.D. Anna is also a co-founder and editor for an online magazine The Literary Canteen. Her poetry is tender and elegant, with a sense of timelessness and stillness.