Fall 2022 | Occasus | Issue 12
Flight of the BirdsSister,
Drink this water and tell me about the pale trees we walked through to get here. Tell me about the slouching fields, crisping beneath our feet, and the wild song of the river, thick with winter. Tell me about the bodies we left behind in order to save ourselves. Kneel down by this water now, cup your hands like folded wings and drink. Look how the sky is home in your hands and a blessing in your body. Look at the symphony of wings lifting like a thousand fleshed petals from the fading trees. |
Isabel Pasila is in her first year at Western University, where she is hoping to pursue the Honours Specialization in Creative Writing and English Language and Literature. Two of her experimental writing pieces were recently accepted into the 2022 spring volume of the Arts and Humanities Student Council publication, Symposium, and she has submitted a piece of micro-fiction for the 2022 Lillian Kroll Prize in Creative Writing. Isabel has been an avid reader and enthusiastic writer since childhood, drawing inspiration from Mary Oliver, Ocean Vuong, David Whyte, and Richard Siken, and aspires to publish volumes of poetry and other works in the future.
