feathers

you only shrugged into this jacket
knit in ice-blue snow-white sacred
Arctic geometry attracted
by its diamantine quality

but the perfect fit made your world shift
you find yourself a spontaneous shamanic
seabird's counsellor
soothing stormy feathers

blowing cool air on an iceberg
warming eggs in the heart-shaped cavity
of your clairvoyant hands

stroking the eider's tousled feathers
caring for the kittiwake
restoring reassuring steering

heart to heart with the guillemot
playfully ruffling the puffin's feathers
resuscitating reuniting clearing

it's a shaman's jacket
a motherly shaman's jacket
you never knew you were
a motherly shaman till now



Vera Kelgart  (with Lemuria crystal)  2014