September 2011
8 posts
“I met my love on a park bench covered in piss.”
– an excerpt from the story of “my life”
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
– Thomas Paine
in a box on top of a shelf
In a box on top of a shelf
where dust collects
there is a photograph, victim to the ravages of time
in it stands a woman next to a tree stump, where
leaves dance so f r e e ly, behind a
river so - still
under a sky just awakened
the pine filled winds gently tugs on her charcoal hair to the east
she stands with hesitation
her arms wrapped around her
waist to keep the cold at bay
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