half-buried in orange sand
the wind-carved wood
remembers its cactus skin,
its blossomed breath-
each petal a jewel
plucked from its crown
in flashes of bright plumage-
days measured in
rustling phantoms,
the sky itself a song.
Tiffany Morris is an L’nu’skw (Mi’kmaw) bi cis anarchafeminist writer from Mi’kma’ki. She is the author of the ecohorror novella Green Fuse Burning and the Elgin Award-winning horror poetry collection Elegies of Rotting Stars. Find her on bluesky @tiffmorris or at tiffanymorris.ca.