Once, you broke out
of a fluid-filled shell—
a twin-fisted heart separating
to a million arteriole.
In the splitting, you found a face that’s not only your face.
After, frost expands liquid;
search out a pond—
a mirror of ice caps
in a wide toothed yawn.
In its mouth, you find a face that’s now only your face.
Is this what remains of bodies
when they re-discover alone?
DC Restaino is a writer and editor living in London, UK. His writing has appeared online and in print at Funicular Magazine, Horizon Magazine, Outcrop Poetry, Thread Magazine, Mulberry Lit, and elsewhere, and is forthcoming from First Page, Mnenotope Magazine, and Michigan Quarterly Review. He was a 2024/2025 emerging writing fellow at the London Library, and a current PhD candidate with funding from LAHP at KCL.
