Thaw

January 2, 2013 at 9:02 pm (literature, philosophy, Poems, poetry, Stories) (exclusion, experience, gardening, isolation, journey, life, memories, nature, poem, poems, poetry, soul, winter, woman, world)

Forgotten

in locked allotments

bracing brass monkey feet

she

dug

deep

with clenched teeth

through frozen clods

customarily turning over old leaves

 until

she                                                                     slipped

and gripping glass

g

u

i

l

l

o

t

i

n

e

d

her pinkie finger tip.

.

As shock welled

to fill iced water butts

she saw her isolation reflected hard as winter

and lifting her mangled digit

in surrender

staggered bleeding to the gate.

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