Erin Wilson

“WHAT IF THE SOUL INDEED IS OUTSIDE THE BODY”

Charles Wright

I gather
a bouquet
of white light

All around
my skin, my body,
white light

I lean this bouquet
toward you, toward you

It burns you

I cannot stop burning you with it
I cannot stop burning you with it

Erin Wilson's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Salamander Magazine, Crab Creek Review, takahē, Reliquiae, Columba, Trinity House Review, Berfois, Pembroke Magazine, Hamilton Stone Review, and in numerous other publications internationally. Her first collection is At Home with Disquiet, published by Circling Rivers Press. She lives and writes in a small town in northern Ontario, Canada.