Two Portaits

Season 3.12: Behold this life; a bloodline strung through skin and thumping heart.

Cradling her grandchild.

Eyes draining 
Over every inch
Of her day old age.

Behold this life;

A bloodline 
Strung through skin
And thumping heart.

And sprouts now 
From her loving limbs
And coils about her gaze,  

Just as ash trees
Gripped those drumlin roads
That rose above her home

Of parler songs,  
And oft told poems,
On horseback at Grousehall.

She stretches now, 
To shoot and grow
Away from trunk and bough;

A blossom in the canopy.
A light, so pink and whole.
An echo on the dapple lanes.

Those lanes,
That drew her up 
And out the root

Out! Beyond
The thorned rows,
To love unknown.

To this astonishment.
This beating heart; 
Her heart.

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Read more from Season 3…

This is the third season of Notes and Noises. If you liked this (or didn’t) why not take a quick look at some of the other posts in the series:

1. Wake Up!

2. All That I Could Do

3. Home

4. To That Tree Atop The Hill

5. On The Way Home

6. Weeds

7. Pauses

8. This Time

9. Be Ready To Do The Thing

10. Tar Isteach

11. Little Boys and Girls

12. Two Portraits

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