Waiting to Be Delivered

Waiting to Be Delivered

TAK Erzinger

Boxed up like parcels

folded in on ourselves

cordoned off in rooms

we wait to be delivered

remainders of unused things

tucked away from hungry hands

but spring cannot be boxed in

a bragging sky

robin’s egg blue

meadows coughing up flowers

as we rattle in these confinements

our bones lie dormant

like tulip bulbs

packed up last season

waiting for the sun

to pull us from this buried place

dispatching us into a changed world.

TAK Erzinger is an American­-Swiss poet and artist with a Columbian background. Her poetry and personal essays have been featured in Mojave He[art] Review, Cirrus Poetry Review, The Beautiful Space Journal, The Curlew, and more. Most recently, she was selected as one of four finalists under the category of poetry for The Eyelands Book Awards. She lives in a Swiss valley with her husband and cats.

Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash.