Her wrist looping, she forms the colour of the ocean
and the softness of blue
out of craving waters and emerges weightless.
In opinion alone, she vacillates wanting at first the sea herself and then to be the sea
to be the sky and all its friends
hands soporific, clementine smelling
from the zany flush of the liquid shells
Moth-like she flies heliotropic toward the horizon
shifting splinters (in the static veins) crying
“stay fast”
Steadfast, turquoise reservoirs appear
in the corners of her vision
and she shifts first into the pond
and then into the puddle
and then into the teardrop.
Stephanie Ritzema is a London-based poet and writer studying the Creative Writing Masters at the University of Cambridge. She focuses on the distinctly feminine and typographical within her poetry. Her work features her links to Greek Heritage, womanhood and ekphrasis. Her poetry has been published in a variety of magazines such as Phi, CROB Mag, and Querencia Press. Find her @_stephritz