Live Encounters Poetry & Writing March 2025
Brine, poem by Cathy Altmann.
Brine
Only you
have tasted
my whole body
hollowed me
in green
depths
suspended me
like seaweed
in your cool arms
I enter you
with my one
breast
you coat me
with salt
lick
me awake
somersault me
like a child
You have held me
for twenty
years pinned
to froth and fury
like a blurred
arrow
On the shore
I am naked
and not afraid
© Cathy Altmann
Cathy Altmann’s most recent collection is Stars Like Salt (Liquid Amber Press, 2024). Her first collection, Circumnavigation (Poetica Christi Press, 2014) won the FAW Anne Elder Award. Her poems have been published in journals, anthologies, websites and on Melbourne’s trains. She holds a Masters of Creative Writing. Cathy currently teaches English and studies theology.
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