Bio
Bianca Bowers is a South-Africa born, Australian-based, poet who has also lived in New Zealand and Britain. Her poetry has appeared in Tongue in Your Ear, Volume 4 (Four/Two Publishing) and the Art Toppling Tobacco Project (2013). She is the author of Death and Life, and you can find her at www.biancabowers.com
Bianca Bowers
She leaves her soul in the stairwell
She leaves her soul in the stairwell
at dusk
Folds her petticoat heart
before the snow-capped raven
serenades the moon
Padlocks her tongue
while the storm gathers emotion
Slips into a bath of disinfectant
to scrub the subterranean scars
When her skin catches its breath
She secures her anxiety
to a moth's wings
and watches it flee the night.