wildscape. literary journal

The Search
by Claudia Heymach

In between years of tired fasts at dawn,
singing hymns among redwoods,
sprinting from demons through the night,
you had a moment of calm.

You called early evening, told me
you were thinking of something sacred:
the cartwheeling of life into the vast universe,
into the territory of blind suns and deaf rocks. 

That we are surrounded by sensing things, 
a world lush with awareness. 

Before you returned to unspooling meaning 
from dreams, trying on ill-fitting faiths 
and wrestling with the cuffs,

you asked if this could be enough — 
the universe, loud and bright, knowing itself. 

about the author // Claudia Heymach

Claudia Heymach studies neuroscience in the MD/PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania, and she is drawn to writing that explores medicine, science, and the mind. Her work has been published in Eunoia Review.