Loosened Mortar

Updated on April 23, 2017
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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

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Hari!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Peggy!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Mike! Not so sure it is profound!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Rasma!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Chitrangada!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Catherine!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Bill!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you vasantha!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you manatita!

    • AudreyHowitt profile imageAUTHOR

      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Hari!

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      Audrey Howitt 

      17 months ago from California

      Thank you Flourish!

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      Hari Prasad S 

      2 years ago from Bangalore

      Extremely beautiful expression. Enjoyed it audrey.

      - hari

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      Audrey Howitt 

      2 years ago from California

      Thank you Peggy!

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      Peggy Woods 

      2 years ago from Houston, Texas

      Love can invade even the tiniest of fissures. Nicely penned! Love the photo at the top.

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      mckbirdbks 

      3 years ago from Emerald Wells, Just off the crossroads,Texas

      Hello Audrey - This must be profound. I sense a message, but don't see it.

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      Gypsy Rose Lee 

      3 years ago from Daytona Beach, Florida

      Really nicely penned.

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      Chitrangada Sharan 

      3 years ago from New Delhi, India

      Excellent work and beautiful expressions! Your title is so good.

      Thanks for sharing!

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      Catherine Tally 

      3 years ago from Los Angeles

      I'm familiar with that self-protecting wall , and you have expressed it so well! :)

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      Mark Tulin 

      3 years ago from Santa Barbara, California

      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.

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      Bill Holland 

      3 years ago from Olympia, WA

      I don't know how you do it, but I'm sure glad you do. :)

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      vasantha T k 

      3 years ago from Bangalore

      nice poem!!.

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      manatita44 

      3 years ago from london

      An evolution of sorts. Great poetry!

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      Hari Prasad S 

      3 years ago from Bangalore

      Great lines. Excellent

      Artificial impregnable walls, fall.

      When nature takes over.

      - hari

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      FlourishAnyway 

      3 years ago from USA

      Beautiful, Audrey.

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