Mercy Artistry

They dance up the medicine of everything being alive. -Tim Lilburn

Mountain artists like to etch delicate patterns on their flat matte skins, and their tobacco-bright sketch marks look burnt as tattoos or tribal tangles of scars. -Eric Ormsby

Dancing breaths erupted from the heated cavern only to be met with an icy chill from their wandering brethren. -HM Poetry

The road points into the wilderness, to this final break with metaphor: what would be fingertip becomes tree, the road becomes path,... the path does not leave the incomparable forest -Leona Gom See more

Nature doesn't jump. Kingdoms are carefully spaced ladders against the sides of burning buildings. -Adam Dickinson