Saturday, June 1, 2024

In search of her flock (2014)

  

It feels like an open wound

Though I’m not sure

Who is wounded,

Hearing her pain

Through her poetry and prose

With nobody to deal with it

Except herself,

A lost sheep desperate

To get back to the flock

Though it is not clear

Who her flock is,

The confusion of emotion,

Mingling with a need of change,

Posting photos from a clinic

She hopes will provide

A cure,

Not from what she thinks

She suffers,

From some deeper

More fundamental

Disturbance,

That has kept her

Sheltering in shells

To keep safe,

Exposed recently,

And scrambling,

The hawks and gulls

Of this ruthless world

Hovering over her,

Always ready

To pounce


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