Safe Passage

There are times 
when the tips of your oars
Impede on me
In the lightless night
When even the stars 
are feeling sour and rejected. 
 
Your menacing tongue
Collects the water
and pushes past me
with wordless strokes
For I am nothing more
than the inanimate cat tail strangers
tangled on the shore. 
 
You do not love me even a little
and still
you drift through the only quiet passage in my heart.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Ingolfsdottir Avatar
December 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Thank you Carol! That is so kind of you to say. Thank you for reading.
Brown Avatar
December 8, 2010 at 4:09 AM
I am reading some very amazing and diverse poetry this morning. I am glad yours was among the poetry I was able to read today. Thank you for sharing your writing with us Julia. Wishing you and yours a wonderful Holiday Season. Love,Carol
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