POETRY

Solastalgia

About a neologism that weaves pain, place, and solace

Miguel Adrover
iPoetry
Published in
1 min readSep 3, 2020

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whorls of time, sand, muscle, water —
a girl aches for Flamenco white sands.
from grain to polished planet,
when life stuff collapses into pearls;
bóvedas bivalvas horneando arena*…

anemones died off
ten years before her birth.

*bivalve vaults baking sand.

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