Loosened Mortar
My #23 for National Poetry Month
walled brick allows tears
to invade mortar.
i had packed it closely
enfolded organs, bits of skin
with spit
and gray slab,
molded it
to fit hip's curve
pressed lip's indentations
toward bone
sealing it like marrow.
but tiny factories
continue to pump love's evidence,
transform it
as it reaches eyes,
loosening mortar
i had thought long fixed.
© 2017 Audrey Howitt
Comments
Hello Audrey - This must be profound. I sense a message, but don't see it.
Really nicely penned.
Excellent work and beautiful expressions! Your title is so good.
Thanks for sharing!
I'm familiar with that self-protecting wall , and you have expressed it so well! :)
In reading this poem I imagined someone trying to control her life but realizing that she really couldn't. Something always seeps through to weaken our foundation.
I don't know how you do it, but I'm sure glad you do. :)
nice poem!!.
An evolution of sorts. Great poetry!
Great lines. Excellent
Artificial impregnable walls, fall.
When nature takes over.
- hari
Beautiful, Audrey.
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