Rx for Healing by Jenevieve Carlyn Hughes

This recovery will require

a kind of alchemy

Of clay

& kinetic energy

The repairing

of sinew,

The restoration

of bone,

Bespeak transmutation

Deep-tissue healing, 

regrowth.

Each cell 

is an oracle,

Divining wellsprings

below—

In the nanosphere 

of the body,

Clay becomes gold.

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Jenevieve Carlyn Hughes teaches humanities for university students. Her poetry has recently appeared in the Northern New England Review's special edition, Front/Lines: Pandemic Perspectives, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Braided Way Magazine, Connecticut River Review, Rue Scribe, and the Amethyst Review, among other places.