Ellery Beck
Bight
Let yourself lay still, fabric
stretched around frame, a fresh
canvas. You are familiar
with the gentle sting
of the brush, how the bristles
scrape color over you. Let the pigment
rest, thin sheets, each shade warm
against your skin. Your body—the fields
sculpted of gently positioned flowers, the soft
blue of sky left behind. Lay still
a little longer. The mountains rest
across you, my fingers trace
the valleys. Let me stay here,
still, even as this landscape leaves
your skin.
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Ellery Beck is a graduate of Salisbury University with a BA in Creative Writing. They have poems published or forthcoming in Passages North, Colorado Review, Atlanta Review, Sugar House Review, New Delta Review and elsewhere. Ellery is also one of the co-founders of Beaver Magazine as well as a reader for Poet Lore.