Supple bends from toe to cheek
Where the pale and curve of clouds
meet the perennial sedge of cattails
to ease back into the horizon.

She is painted golden
chasing enchantments,
and netting suspended charms
all the while freeing apprehensions.
It is a procession of fireflies.
these bequested jewels worn magestic

With every earthy respire
the ghostly shadows that pass over sun
break, radiate and fizzle
like match strike fire.
and the tremble of ambivalence departs.

unafraid remains

words © malai carrara
photography © nausher banaji