Gillie Robic

London, UK

Gillie Robic was born in India and lives in London.  Her poems have appeared in the UK and the US. Her two collections, Swimming Through Marble and Lightfalls, were published by Live Canon in 2016 and 2019.

Poem: completed 10th May 2020

Arcadian

These move: the ocean, the eye, bodies.

If dying were a circadian rhythm

we would all be nymphs and shepherds, 

measuring out the precious nectar

these drowning hours provide, sinking

in perfection, in flawless moments

made ultimate, sublime, metamorphic,

each breath moving us closer to death.