Be.

By Amelia Averis
May 5, 2025
                 You are so important 
that it barely matters what you do,
Just
                 slow, be kind.
Many things will be a stranger, but 
                 The heron will linger on your eye contact
And the deer will seem, for a moment 
                 To not be afraid.
Can you say that? do not be afraid 
Can you say that, being earnest?
                 In all your years 
Who have you startled? Yourself? 
                 ​You fragile thing, 
And for who became
a waterfall
with how much you have wanted?
The organs of Amelia Averis’s poems can be found in her 10 years of journals. Those born and walking in the world can be found in Tiger Moth Review, Prosetrics, Everscribe, and in her chapbook as the ink birds split the sunset (Alien Buddha Press).
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