In Orbit
In sleep, a comet stopped beside the garden.
Its voice was the green taste of running water.
It said, I will come down on the seventh day,
then passed through the wall without breaking it.
I woke where night was becoming a window.
Morning carried a blue scent, like an unopened road.
I wrote the date inside my diary,
and roots began to grow beneath the number.
Since then, the sky has moved closer to the house.
Birds circle a place that has not yet arrived.
Perhaps the comet is already on the earth,
waiting for it to notice.
Olya K-Mehri is a Forward Prize-nominated, London-born poet of Iranian heritage whose poetry explores landscape as a site of mystery, the spirit of place, and the quiet presence of the sacred in the natural world. She is a researcher in environmental ethics and philosophy, and the founder of the Rooted Art Collective. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, as well as in print and digital publications, including Osmosis Press, Dust Poetry Magazine, Rough Diamond Poetry, and Seedlings.
