How easily she left the house;

How easily she left the house;

A Poem by Ebby

The windows glow amber on the cliff top:

On the beach she palm-cradles pebbles;
[not the imagined :chink: but something altogether more]
tumbling fistfuls watch and wait.

She is pieced together: some other limbs
hinged from some other spinestack,
a rickety puppet performing to fog

whose paleness blows in across the salt marsh;
a brackish and cloaking relief, softly
cloaking her powdering bones, her blunted mind.

Seaweeds wrap skirts round her hips,
round her silver-lined belly,
tightly binding her heavy hands.

The oystercatcher sieves memories from salty shallows.
An SOS lined neatly in stones
and a sea so flat and wide as to still her blood
.

 

© 2012 Ebby


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Hi Ebby, I love the ocean and the soothing images you created.Love the title. I would easily leave my apt. as well. I'm new here, just learning the rules.

Posted 4 Years Ago


beautiful poem - it has some gorgeous imagery

Posted 9 Years Ago


Wonderful write.
Crave for more.

Posted 10 Years Ago


I try to befriend you and WC won't let me for some reason...it says you have already sent ME a request but I haven't seen one or I would have readily approved it. There's an error in the works somewhere. Anyway, we ARE friends! Count on it. Hope your day is wonderful!


Posted 10 Years Ago


Frail and distant in the fog of the world-- has me wondering with heavy heart if and when the wind will blow. This is masterful work, as always.

Posted 10 Years Ago


the phrases you use in this are fantastic. the blunted mind. yes.

Posted 11 Years Ago


What a pleasure you are to read...what a wonderful descrptive voice carrying the words along like flower petals at a wedding of gods. I miss you. Bless.

Posted 11 Years Ago


i loved this. such a unique flow, & a real sweet, ethereal flavour to the whole thing. very nicely done.

Posted 11 Years Ago


I came again to read, it is flowing in waves, what I like so much. Who is she?

Posted 11 Years Ago


So very glad to find a poem of yours here, even though I'm a couple of months late finding it. Your poems are always treasures. Have missed reading your work much. Good thoughts sent your way. - Mimi. xx

Posted 11 Years Ago



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Ebby
Ebby

Bath, United Kingdom



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I am a mother, a teacher and a poet, all of which I love, and consider myself blessed. I used to write here often, but a wave hit me and I took a break. Everything looks surprisingly familiar even a.. more..


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