Before they named her witch,
she walked the seam
where sky and soil
in ancient union lay;
the forests moved
around her like a dream,
their roots remembering
her sovereign sway.
She spoke in wind-tongue,
gentle as the showers,
her palm—a
#saucer
full of silver stars;
all rivers bent to her
in lucid hours,
for earth recalled her
long before the scars.
She was the axis
seasons leaned upon,
the hush that kept the world
in breathing grace;
no exile now returning
with the dawn—
it is the earth relearning
her own face.
She does not rise as
something newly born:
balance remembers
who preceded form.
#vss365