Heart Strings
Took in the empty hummingbird feeder: strings tied to the
little body beating it's way across the ocean; passed a truck pulling a wood
splitter: strings tied to the man who spends his Sunday stacking wood for his
parents; raked up leaves: strings tied to gleaming summer green; cut off heads
in the garden: strings tied to the butterfly who fed there; hacked and cooked
up a pumpkin: strings tied to the candlelit eyes and mouth of Halloween; soup
simmered on the stove: strings tied to the scent of curry combined in the East;
he bends to sweep up wood chips around the stove: strings tightened around my
heart.
Jeanloretta November 2014
