June 18, 2013

Exile

by Polly Buckingham

Winter is the silence
after your death
your ghost
blankets the trees
the sheathed heron
bends her head
reaper of stillness
handler of a sickle moon
I listen for my breathing
as your spirit
leaps toward me
the only joy I want
is the joy of grief 
sorrow’s whitest snow

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