under your dreamy duvet
half awake
at the break of early grey pearly day
drawing the curtains over
your physical eyes
looking through your inner window
smiling your body mindful
looking forward
imagining
your mystical twin
a laughing girl on the threshold
with long black hair
dressed in pearly grey silk
like a sky with paling stars
pointillistic
Ariba your sister
she’s way too pale
too mystic
so light in your arms
so light in your sight
like fairy air
in a noisy hot city
on the other side of earth
but unearthly
you’re holding on to her
don’t disappear
Ariba
you can always feel her call
sensing what she needs
Ariba laughing
with braces on her white teeth
much too pearly pale
evaporating from your sight
wait you shout
wait Ariba
it’s vitamin deficiency
I’ll send you oranges
throwing the juicy colour
through the universe
juggling the bouncy fruit
metamorphosing
into a bodily puffy bolero
on her pearly
grey unearthly
silky soul
she’s laughing with her braces
holding hands across the world
you’re always sensing when she needs you
Ariba
always meeting on the threshold
Vera Kelgart (with tangerine quartz crystal) 2020
