Grass Widow

grass widow Function: noun Date: 1528 1chiefly dialect a: a discarded mistress b: a woman who has had an illegitimate child2 a: a woman whose husband is temporarily away from her b: a woman divorced or separated from her husband

She cries.

Rivulets of misspent youth

and misplaced love

flow.

Tears sting

her cheeks, her heart

expelling the poison of

‘alone'.

She breathes,

slowly, deeply

inhaling and exhaling

the thickness of memory.

Absorbing the bitter darts

of frigid tongues

unhappy in their marriage beds.