I was completely enthralled with this poem by Alison over at Postcards from Thursday and just needed to share it. Enjoy!
The Widow’s Pension
A dead finch in each hand,
bile and memory heaving out,
years, decades of speaking loudly
and weeping into book binding,
though she once ached to be left
with scratches along her ears,
to be the vandal, to touch
the bottom of the river.
She’s lived her life one miracle short,
but, for herself, she will say at least this—
she has seen beauty in a quilt of torn blouses,
found that it’s the slow pour that spills over.
She trampled bees on the night when she woke
and left that bed. No leaf of Eve, no more blessed thing.
Radiant is all her grayness.
Alison, who writes Postcards from Thursday, also includes original photography on her blog. The above photo is one of her creations as well. Check out her moving photography and poetry. It’s well worth a look!