June 2009
2 posts
oh, the longings...
tears… tears upon tears folded into a river swollen with a summer’s worth of heartache from a far more splendid year and the longings oh, the longings a merciless tide wave after wave upon her fractured being they would not cease she would not let them she wrapped their tattered ruins around her diminished frame talons grasping at the breach
a torrent on the sill
a sliver of light on gossamer billowing gusts of salty air rain…so much rain… a torrent on the sill and yet a feeble counterfeit to the war within the walls deluge into you into me a linen sleeve in the upset glass a fluttering sequin lost to the ages (and happier for it) into you into me the refrain of a distant gull hear it? it needs to know it is calling us home ...
