Smithereens Press Chapbooks Atoll by Dylan Brennan

Silent Birth after Popol Vuh It is silent, calm, hushed on the soft ripples of the waters It is silent, calm, hushed in the womb-sky above Unfathomable absence – pools that pool in darkness These things, these things Only womb-sky exists there is no plate of earth Only ripples in the darkness there are no banks of sand Waters calm and hushed – a need to fill the void 3