On the few occasions I made it out
to visit, she was independent yet cross.
Yet I'd coax her into my arms to dance.
Her bones were feathers. Old muscles
barely skin and sinew, as our two shadows
caught the sun in the late afternoon.

Now kneeling in the cemetery, time drifts
like a slow river, tiny torches lit.
I still feel hot tears on my back,
and I know she has removed everything
but skin, for she must rehearse
the spreading of wings.


 

Tasha, AKA Petra Klein, lives in the Chicago area. She is a receptionist for a retirement facility and a telecommunications business. She is inspired by the poetry of Anne Sexton, Jim Morrison & e.e. cummings. She has been published in numerous web eZines: 2River View, Stirring, Conspire, The Green Tricycle, Friction Magazine, Eclectica, Poems Niederngasse, Gumball Poetry and so on.

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