they saw her in the forest
looking for what she had lost
between trees the bare pieces
of white and thin cloth
the more she walked
the less of her there was
her body was traced later
by a good local cop
they probably saw her
the birch pale that she was
she mixed in well with leaves
and the background noise
Katarzyna is a psychologist with an interest in psychoanalysis and writing. She lives, works and writes in London. Her poems are short and nearly always rhyme – this may be due to a fear of long prose ever since school.