Two Poems by Olivia Ferreira

In the poems below, Olivia Ferreira uses meticulous wording to convey her keen impressions of the natural world.

Two Poems

by Olivia Ferreira

The Taste Of Dinosaur Bones

Swollen marrow

And fractured bones

Crack to trail among jaw lines etched in fog.

Shattered glass stuck between layers of tissue and muscle;

Shaken from walls of hollow plaster.

Windows left open with creamy light to filter through shaded branches paved through entryways.

Skeletal fingers elongate and stretch for a meaning,

Only to grasp at an idea floundering away.

Navy skies to lie beneath;

Sheltered from temperate events.

Color drains within moments.

While cheeks fade from rose to ink

With wounded bones to show.

Lips creased ever so slightly,

Frayed at the seams

Ripped and torn from ever-biting winds.

A frame

That no longer contains anything,

But nothing at all

As it collapsed from the center.

Her chest still rises and falls

In momentum to her beating heart.

Red burns through paper skin;

Only evident to the taste of life still dusting inside of her.

Severance of cells leads to skeletons breaking in two.

With all her contoured bones to drown as if the weight of the world on her shoulders wasn’t enough.

Wrists melt to nothing,

Tissues to evaporate entirely.

Her eyes have long glazed over

From wear and tear.

Eye sockets to bulge from her fatal face.

And here she lies;

Broken and shattered among.

Fossils of Fractured Bones

Eyes enthrall;

Pupils dilating to capture the ocean in view.


Losing herself in the irretrievable horizons.

I saw the rocks as they sat helplessly;


Being clashed upon by serrated waves.


No longer were grains of oceans being tossed as paper in a storm.

Salt stung at open wounds,

Frayed at the seams with patches to contain her poor body to one.

Clouds shattered along famished shores etched in glass from seas to be caught within the soles of her feet.

The ocean engulfed the girl entirely.


No longer were her foot prints paved,


Nor the war between the sea and rocky terrain. 


For,

In the end, 


Sea won as it always does.

About the Author

Emily Dickenson, Louisa May Alcott, E.E. Cummings, and Sylvia Plath are Olivia Ferreira’s favorite poets. Olivia draws her inspiration from music, nature, quotations, and “just about anything.”