The Cardinal

A one-line poem. Theme: Wild

Photo by Hai Phung on Unsplash

Slut-red lips
Suede-silent, bourbon-rimmed
Eyes — a corridor
of words sharp as scalpel
Wild petrichor breaths
She’s the wind’s open whorl
Straddling the line between breeze and tempest.

This is a response piece to a prompt by Josie Elbiry for Chalkboard. You can read her beautiful poem here:

Wild