Galloping Heart by Nichola Ruddell
Grief Spattered thump
Joy covered thrum
Pummeling through
Claw and whisper
A galloping heart
Waits
For
No one
Nichola Ruddell was born in Vancouver British Columbia and raised on Salt Spring Island. She attended university at the University of Victoria receiving a degree in Child and Youth Care she is also a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist . She enjoys writing poetry and is previously published in Yellow Arrow Journal Vol, V , Home and in the online Magazine Literary Mama .