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For this week\u2019s Writers\u2019 Spotlight we have asked Brendon Goodmurphy | @folkmurphy<\/a> to share an excerpt from his poem, In Morning an Iris Opens Itself<\/em> (2023). A beautiful, insightful, celebration of live and of us all, inspired by the blooming wildflowers typical of the Tuscan countryside, and supported by the chance and time to look inwards while in residency.<\/p>\n

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\n.
\n.<\/p>\n

Blue veins and violet fingers
\nunclasp. The young twist themselves
\ninwards but this one, guided by the lonely drag
\nof time, gives her petals, shapes them
\nto gravity\u2019s pull, as though sagging
\nskin. There\u2019s so much strength in drooping.
\nFor each petal unfurls a world and here
\nyou stand in an endless meadow
\nof tiny universes<\/p>\n

Brendon Goodmurphy, excerpt from In Morning an Iris Opens Itself, 2023<\/p>\n

Photos by Niklas Adrian Vindelev | @niklasadrianvindelev<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brendon Goodmurphy, In Morning an Iris Opens Itself<\/em>, 2023<\/p>\n

Blue veins and violet fingers
\nunclasp. The young twist themselves
\ninwards but this one, guided by the lonely drag
\nof time, gives her petals, shapes them
\nto gravity\u2019s pull, as though sagging
\nskin. There\u2019s so much strength in drooping.
\nFor each petal unfurls a world and here
\nyou stand in an endless meadow
\nof tiny universes<\/p>\n

Land inside one, you will
\ndiscover yourself as limestone and dust
\ncaught in reaching sunlight and as a whole slab
\nof elements colliding through the long
\nexpanding breaths of a storm. Think of all the
\nfar flung atoms that found each other
\nacross star clusters and those final
\ndemanding inches. Scoop up sand in glass
\nand contemplate the billion
\nimprobable yous<\/p>\n

that followed time bending on itself
\nlike a millipede curled on sun-warm
\ntiles, one-thousand arms gripping to life
\nand earth, and each other. Why should we not
\ncall this force, hidden and sweeping.
\ngod? The tectonic shifts of your bones
\nslide so slow you can barely see the glorious
\neverything you\u2019ve become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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