Showing posts with label where do tears come from. Show all posts
Showing posts with label where do tears come from. Show all posts

Friday, April 10, 2015

A child asked Emily-

A child asked Emily
Where do tears come from?
Wet-I've been-Where
Tears come from-You have
dipped in the Abyss too?

Sprung from spaces-unseen-
Joy has never been-There
to melt away the bitterness
of an icy raw day

Seeping and Weeping push through-
guarded Gates-solid as Blinking
little trifles-Tears-like watercolors
Bleeding flowers drooping wet in the Garden




Image of painting by Winslow Homer (1878) 'Girl in Garden' [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Lip sticks and stones

The way my name  sits in your mouth, at least, you want it to. The 'a' hanging an ellipses on the sound waves. The rattling of conso...