Photo: Untitled, Michael Howarth (2023)
You pass through grasses
Corridors making a child of you
Falling quiet
Dropping
away
from the others
Waiting
Curlews and skylarks echo
piebald and sand
if you could see them
You turn solitude over in your hands
The others are just beyond
the dune
Ashley Williamson
Ashley Williamson is an American poet living in the inspiring English Lake District. She is currently working on her Undergraduate of Creative Writing at Oxford University. When not writing, she works as an industrial radiographer for a small family business in the aerospace industry. She wanders the Lake District, rock collecting and painting. Her poetry features in Wingless Dreamer, Sad Girls Lit Mag, and upcoming editions of Beyond Words Literary Magazine and The Festival Review.