I spin in fractious movements
trying to dispel colours
to each angle of a room.
Yet, rooms are plentiful
spanning corridors,
twisting corners,
burrowing low,
reaching skyward high.
In the right light,
you’ll catch my meaning
sitting back to eye
curious turns of a spinning coin.
Iridescent, metallic sides
can (when lucky) entrap senses
mimicking exotic butterflies.
Whose sublime markings
are only seen by keen watchers
the most finely attuned audiences
as they marvel upon symmetry,
syntax choices, subject matter,
voice, style and tone.
Drinking in vivacious,
paint palette eyespots,
activated by each wingspan flutter
activated by each wingspan flutter
sifting freshly inked manuscript.
Many peep through,
hypnotised, stunned
like a wasp’s sting,
lingering on thresholds.
Emma Wells
Emma is a mother and English teacher. She has poetry and prose published with various literary journals and magazines. She is currently writing her fifth novel.
Emma won Wingless Dreamer’s Bird Poetry Contest of 2022 and her short story, ‘Virginia Creeper’, was selected as a winning title by WriteFluence Singles Contest in 2021.
Recently, Emma won Dipity Literary Magazine’s 2024 Best of the Net Nominations for Fiction with a short story entitled ‘The Voice of a Wildling’.
Her poem ‘Rose-Tainted is the winner of the poetry category, Discourse Literary Journal, February 2024 Issue.
She has just been shortlisted for her flash fiction writing, ‘Agnes Richter’, by Anthology.