Butterflyskin

Holly Appling lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada. Her poems have appeared in the Canadian journals QWERTY and Carousel as well as the online journal The Writer's Spot and a south Indian publication the Herald Hindustan. Selected poems from collections can be viewed at www.soulspringstudio.wordpress.com.

butterflyskin

there is no falling
there is only love
love which has always been
there and another love
suddenly opening
between wingspread
no beginning or end
soul to soul on a flower
abandoned in each other