In Stasis

Image: Alex Stoddard, courtesy of The Mag

Held captive in a man-made womb

composed of glass and wooden stave,

adrift inside this watery grave

while oak and hemlock guard my tomb.

I rest on decomposing bed

of rotting life and fictile earth;

awaiting on some grand re-birth

I float in stasis state instead.

©  Ginny Brannan April 2012

Written for The Mag #114. By Tess Kincaid; she provides the image, we provide the story!