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Orbital
NICOLETTE RATZ
I’ll start again—
slower this time
with less
lying.
A circle over time
is a spiral.
I pull a spider up
from the shower drain
to rest
and find my spirit.
I walk circles—
slower each time
around a moon
passing the crater
of my body
and rocks carved:
you’ve been here before—
as if to say
go somewhere else—
but
there is nowhere else
to go.
Nicolette Ratz (she/her) is a Wisconsin-raised poet, naturalist, and MFA candidate in creative writing at Oregon State University. She uses poetry to explore, unearthing remnants of the self in bird calls, dreams, and ice. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Citron Review, Ghost City Review, Bramble, Cider Press Review and The Meadow.
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