Nichole Davies
to breathe again.
To sit in the silence and hear your presence.
To know without a doubt that you are within arm’s reach.
To rest in the quiet and hear your heart steady,
my once-strong but now fluttering smile .
There is a great sea miles wide between our bodies, landlocked.
And I sit here reaching for a soul closer than my own,
cannon-like silence dripping with discontent.
Nichole Davies grew up in Billings, Montana as a youth leader’s daughter turned wild. She enjoys plants. home aquariums, disobeying rules, and learning about oddities like Bigfoot or the ghost in her family home. Her work can be found in publications such as Asterium, The Rocky Mountain Review, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Allegheny Review, and FeverDream Magazine.
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