Life Cycle
POETRY
by Liza Moore
In
winter
months
light detaches
from a hill,
slow
and full of silence,
where, dying,
lilies dissolve their golden leaves.
The world withdraws
for a time
knowing the cost of having been.
Bear and fox
in their closed spaces
welcome
what little practice received
for their final
descent.
We wait
outside all of this,
native tongues of the industrial tread,
afraid
to become
what we have feared.
Our hands feel the shape
of darkness
like a cropland
plowed
in the deep of summer,
roots run dry.
A barren faith in the things that have shaped us.
Liza Moore is an artist and storyteller living in Round Rock, Texas. She has exhibited her paintings in various shows throughout the Round Rock area, and has written, illustrated, and self-published three children’s books. Moore’s writing and artwork have also appeared in EcoTheo Review, Fathom Mag, and Ekstasis Magazine. Currently, she works as the Director of Parish Communications at St. Richard’s Episcopal Church in Round Rock.
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