her soul
tidily boxed
in brown cardboard
secured with see through
packing tape and hessian brown twine
arrived today, a little dented at the corners
but otherwise seemingly intact.

not knowing quite
what
to do with it
i placed it
in the cool dark
cupboard
and
gave it time to
settle

but it was
as they say
in books
restless
and
needing
to be
released
to the
new station
the new level
that it now was
to inhabit

so gathering
the implements
to bust
it
out of
it's
earthly confines

i opened
the tidy
tightly
packed
parcel
and there
before
my teary eyes

words
in straight
and seemingly
meaningful lines
making sentences
telling a story
her soul magnified,
HER SOUL MAGNIFIED.