And She Came Down

Artwork by Messiah

She came down from the precipice.

She didn’t want to fly.

She wanted to ground.

So she came down. 

At times paralyzed in fear at what lay below

She came down.

At times numbing out to avoid the feeling

She came down.

Her desire to know shook her to the core,

An earthquake tore her open

Fragments spread on her shore. 

She picked up a conch shell

And put it to her ear

Life purred so close, it comforted her.

So she stayed down.

Body hugging the ground.

A million trillion insect’s primordial buzz surrounding.

-Joanna Fassl, 11/22/21