> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.missingwitches.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # My country (an unfinished poem) - URL: https://www.missingwitches.com/my-country-an-unfinished-poem/ - Published: 2025-03-28T15:27:07.000Z - Updated: 2025-03-28T15:27:07.000Z - Description: my country is a forgotten song - Author: Editor - Tags: Zine, Witch Poetry my country is a body is a grave is a flower bed my country is a snow-packed ground pale with ash I’ve kept its ghost my country is an empty house full of human furniture hot from their collective breath my country is a caving chest is the roof of an abandoned chapel decomposed, light coming in my country is a forgotten song distorted under water made of salt and sweat and bones my country is a hard pill lodged in the throat cradled there in the wet, dark inner tunnels is the medicine no one needs my country is a ghost that haunts my house that haunts my body… --- Celeste Briefs is an emerging poet and writer from Colorado whose work has been published by *The Applause Journal*, *Sixfold*, and CU Denver Anschutz Medical Campus's *The Human Touch*. She received her B.A. in English, Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Colorado, Denver, and currently serves as a student success coach with City Year Denver. Throughout her work she has explored themes of liminality, mythology, sensuality, and wonder, constantly seeking out hidden connections between the body and the earth, the mouth and the voice, the real and the dreamt. Embodying herself fully in her writing, she seeks to shine a light on the formlessness of being, the confusion of an ever-changing body, and the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though deeply informed by mental illness, her words nevertheless reach with longing towards a greater understanding of resilience, love, and the mundane things that make magick in our lives. Celeste also publishes long-form nonfiction pieces on her Substack newsletter *The Lodestone Review*, where this piece was originally published. [*The Applause Journal*](https://uafs.edu/applause/issues/issue-31/poetry/ekphrasis-in-the-louvre-october-2014-and-other-poems.php?ref=missingwitches.com) [*Sixfold*](https://old.sixfold.org/PoSummer23/Briefs.html?ref=missingwitches.com) [*The Human Touch*](https://indd.adobe.com/view/11e6b0f2-d342-4fac-925b-e382659e0988?ref=missingwitches.com) [*Substack*](https://open.substack.com/pub/celestebriefs/p/the-labyrinth?r=nvskj&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false&ref=missingwitches.com)