Skeleton Leaf
fragile you hang
of intricate lace mapping
outlining a draughtman’s beauty drawn
holding tick-past air casings ‘tween
gossamer-thin leaf veins
of frozen breath and a thousand shush-spit stories
tracing tacit tales untold
‘til turning colourless crumble dust at slightest stroke
the strength in your untouchable beauty
we cannot yet know sure
your flake rebirths
in glory
Kate Noble is creative writer, singer and disabled student mentor. Read more – waking the mind whilst touching the soul – in Vine Leaves Press, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Ballast Journal and Linked Verse from Laughing Ronin Press. She is 58 years of age and lives in northern England, UK.