Small Fires

Her hands glow

I’m not sure if I

Believe in auras

But I can feel orange

Yellow and the softest

Blue in her touch

When she takes

My hand in hers

And kindles small

Fires between us Lily is a 24-year-old writer living in Sydney/Gadigal and Bidigal land completing an MFA of Writing For Performance at NIDA.

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