Healing

Even though I can

   breathe ~
Smile in the kitchen –
   with the August peaches
   and noisy chatter
be happy – alone – in
   the quiet dark

There is clutter
   in the corners
depression hovers
   expectantly
I am tired ~
and shy away from
   living out loud.


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jreinhart's picture
Having just canned a pile of peaches from Colorado's western slope, this poem strikes an immediate chord. The sense of autumn and the coming dark also appears to me, under the surface, as the busyness of summer chatter anticipates the "quiet dark." The mixture of physical images and feeling work well here.

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