The Wait

The Wait

A Poem by Audrey Howitt

hovering

in abeyance

circling

in patterns

waiting

upon changes

without control

prayers

plunder

all asking

for an easing

for comfort

for more life

for death

sometimes for both

 

a white curtain

flutters

gauze-like

and as the wind whips by

it presses cloth

into eyes

into navel

into the crevice between legs

the gauze

a shroud

on a summer’s day



copyright/all rights reserved Audrey Howitt 2012

© 2012 Audrey Howitt


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Pax
a shimmering patiences... like i said to my quote: waiting is much harder if we think of the time we wasted, so i say think of other things... then you've done that amazingly appreciating the beauty around you...
beautiful work my friend.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you!
this evokes so much colorful imagery that it fairly creates its own pictures...very nicely written

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you quinfinn--hope all is well in your world
quinfinn

11 Years Ago

my world couldn't be better, thank you!
Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

I am glad!
As always Audrey beautifully written with flow and pace and evokative words and phases that makeyou feel the piece.

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you John!
It has been writen beautifuly well done


Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you!
I know this feeling, of waiting for something, death, healing, the unknown. You wrote it beautifully. Thank you for posting it

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you so much Heather--
that's quite an image, increasingly intimate and powerful

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you Ed--I wrote this when a close friend's husband became really ill--he died last week and I .. read more
Love it

Posted 11 Years Ago


Audrey Howitt

11 Years Ago

Thank you Adam--I so appreciate it--
Adam M. Snow

11 Years Ago

You are most welcome

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Added on August 11, 2012
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Audrey Howitt
Audrey Howitt

Alameda, CA



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I am so happy to be writing! I was an attorney in my previous incarnation. These days, I teach voice mostly, write some and do a little psychotherapy. It seems like a good combination for me. I h.. more..

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