Hearts.......

.....are like silk both soft and strong, they can be broken but are also remarkably resilient, better to have loved and lost than never loved at all, or so the saying goes and I do think that is true. So is all that stuff about what doesn't kill you making you stronger. I saw this on a tree today in the wood and the heart shape struck me as particularly apt to illustrate that with its gnarled scab where a branch once was and the droplets and rivulets of rain on the bark like tears........

Here's one I made earlier as they say......


SISTERECTOMY

I've had a sisterectomy
There's no wound
Or scar to show

No empty sleeve
To neatly fold and pin
In badge of loss

Elusive sibling ache
I carry it somewhere still
In head, in heart or gut

No scale can weigh its pain
No gauge can measure
The depth of its careless cut

Unhealed sorrow
Flows through blood
That once ran thick

Its devastation hidden
In fractured bonds
Of severed root and tribe


Carole Bone
October 2008