The Nereid by Krista Canterbury Adams

Photo by Polina on Unsplash

Stars rise

In a wheel all around.

White shoulders bare,

By water

Surrounded,

This other light rises,

A head

Crowned in halo above

The surface.

But seek the deepest

Cave for refuge.

Begin a new inheritance—

Just like the white creatures

Of the sea,

Seek the lowest depths.

Above,

The moon will still rise,

So simple a circle

So bright and white.

Bio

Krista Canterbury Adams has studied poetry at Ohio Dominican University and The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her poem “Resurrection” has been published in print and online. She has a six-poem series due to be printed this spring in AHF Magazine.

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