swifts  &  s l o w s · a quarterly of crisscrossings

saturated with muted hues
K Weber

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Flash/Bulb

My most broken hairs are silver, snapped
guitar strings. A long song played while I was

stranded without music on the wire
after the tousle of a storm. Age wrecked

my head’s electricity. No more family
as paparazzi; my life’s half-

acre saturated with muted hues. There’s
been lightning and lightening in lieu

of enlightenment. Periodic squalls
frizz with rain. I soak up moments

with my own camera’s memory. I sweat
from my shiny roots and leave tears every-

where, exaggerated, like the out-of-tune
splosh of a clumsy basin. I watch dead

things grow and send myself a picture, my
pause. I cultivated curl so long and fair,

well; tried watering ends to a sleek. Tendrils
wrapped coyly at the sight of the nearest,

glossy branch. Nature grew me from germ,
swollen with my life story, and I began

to trill at first glint.

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K Weber is an Ohio writer with 10 online books of poetry. She obtained her Creative Writing BA in 1999 from Miami University. K writes independently and collaboratively, having created poems from words donated by more than 300 people since 2018. K has poems featured in publications such as The Hooghly Review, Writer’s Digest, Fevers of the Mind & her photography/digital collages appear in literary journals including Barren Magazine and Nightingale & Sparrow. Much of K’s work (free in PDF and some in audiobook format) and her publishing credits are on her website: kweberandherwords.com