Stacey Gruver: Erosion is Self Care
Erosion is Self Care
to reject starvation
cultivate hollowness, make room
for your hunger, summon a river and
let your current eat its way through
bedrock, let your current carve a cavern
to shelter the beginnings of your appetite--
your sightless birds, eyeless deer,
serpents transparent with need
be a good shepherd and your flocks
will multiply, will spread, will feed you
Stacey Gruver is a poet and artist who lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, she was a recipient of the Maryland Individual Artists Award. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Eye to the Telescope, and The Puritan.