Pink Rosewinds Calling by Paige McBride

            after Jason Hackenwerth’s painting Madonna on the Beach

The blue closed coral

                                    curtain exposes the pink

rosewinds calling as emotions

                                    bleed itself onto a canvas

only to become a lineament

                                    inside an immaculately haunted

hidden pearl egg hiding

                                    conceived at the heart of rebirth.

A seer sees this painted

                                    story show itself as a shell

of everything not harvested,

                                    sows what lies aligned

far from the earth’s harmony.

                                    The truth lies in soil

when the soul is unleashed,

                                    and becomes newly rejuvenated soil

once built as a body.

                                    A body once submerged sings

as another rising soul emerges,

                                    birthed from another sunning

pearling body.

Paige McBride is a poet and artist who lives in Dunedin, Florida. She earned a BA in English (CRW) and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She is currently earning her Master’s degree in Creative Writing – Poetry at Saint Leo University. Her poems have appeared in the Straylight Literary Magazine, Saint Katherine Review, West Trade Review, Tulane Review, Heartwood Literary Magazine, American Chordata, Sunset Liminal Press, aaduna, Literary Juice, Burningword Literary Journal, and The Wayfarer among others.