STEPHANIE ANN DEVITO

SPRING ISSUE #08 POET

Stephanie Ann Devito is an emerging writer whose work exists where death, nature and sexuality meet. Her poetry is sensual. An expression of life’s treacherous ecstacy and the ache of a body enamored with its own passing. You can follow her on Instagram @sadonagoodday and read more of her work at imagineherhappy.com.

MUD THAW

Touch me like you would the earth
with fingers dug deep in the soil,
cold as January until it tempers against your pulse.

You could melt me into spring,
make me clay between your palms.
Dirty your hands in the possibility.

You could leave me
in the shape of you,
and I’d fill your impression with last night’s rain
until another washes it away.

Or you could stay.
Bury yourself in me,
and I’d hold you like the grave.