Unhinged

Unhinged, the tree hangs
delicately,
from the last,
broken bough.

She, passed
this way
in her fractile motion,
perpetual to the end

With hands clasped
behind,
her reckless eye wanders,
to my hourglass smile

Too long now
the old man reminds,
tired limbs
that rock aching heads

until faded
in cold faith
all dust
and time
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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