Helichrysum and a Cello
Edgar Meyer and Joshua Bell’s “In the Nick of Time” from Short Trip Home is the music in the video.
By Harper Lewis Published 12 months ago • Updated 9 months ago • 1 min read
I bathe myself in cedar
and helichrysum, burn
palo santo and laurel,
cover myself with rocks,
hold a piece of lapis
in my mouth,
candles glowing
fountain flowing
beneath the cratered moon
to the sound of
a single cello.
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.
Intertextuality is my passion.
Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.
My words are mine, not a robot’s.
MA English literature, CofC
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