Shadow of a Woman
Posted in Verse on Sep 9th, 2008
I am not brilliant
in any two-minute way,
or in any explosive manner
you want to name.
I merely perceive my world
through my reactions to it;
the quality of my own mortifications,
the incongruous way speechlessness
takes over my senses
when beholding wonders,
the easy way words run into the meadows
to chase feelings and butterfly wings.
I write, moved, transported
elsewhere,
with found honesty,
when time and words […]
