Queen for a day.
Prisoner for life.
Her 'crimes':
New mother and wife;
A woman of color
Thinking for herself;
Just leave her be, please,
Lest history repeat itself.

Single mother's eyes
Wells of tears, wishful prayers
Same blues as her child's.

to decline

to say no, or even to fail softly with a sloping line

with b lead pencil

tapering off into dots repeated



the fall is abrupt and possibly dramatic

related to weight & gravity



like a





thick black ink line ruled sharply down

ending with an abrupt grand splatter



unless we are talking of autumn the gold

time which comes gentler with occasional winds

and related sweeping



autumn comes softly so

we fall

peace:where to find
Chirping birds no longer sweet
The swirling fields are no treat
Calmness: an elusive dream
Tranquility, where to find
Warm love no longer at hand
An elephant foot on my heart
Peace:you left me alone
In a world with no safe
Why you left me?
Nature have no colour on
What have you done to me?
I look around
In search of you
But darkness has prevailed all
Peace:where to find you?

This is to say
I have not eaten
Williams' plums
in the icebox

Nor have I seen
the stiff curl
of the wildcarrot leaf

Wordsworth's waters
on a starry night

Forgive me
for I do lack
what it means
to truly
write