YAhweh

By Michael Lyle

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lubricates
latch and limb

slathers 
lovelorn souls
like a hungry child
buttering bread.

Newly lifted noses
drip rose petals
on awestruck chins

inhaling summer sky
like pure oxygen

as brightness spreads within

the way a newborn 
weans the world.

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Michael Lyle is the author of the poetry chapbook The Everywhere of Light (Plan B Press), and his poems have appeared widely, including in Atlanta Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Crannóg, The Hollins Critic, Mudfish and Poetry East. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Michael's other work on Foreshadow:
Wick of the Soul (Poetry, October 2022)
Tennis Players (Poetry, October 2022)

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