Saturday, October 3, 2009

Life is an Onion

An orb of thin skinned parchment,
a velum of belief
which coats our past.

Peeling the first layer exposes
the white lined flesh,
layers of thickness
like the dendrochronology
of trees...

somewhere in the undoing
of rings is a core,
where tears were never
meant to be shed.

4 comments:

  1. Ah, Wendy, this is marvelous!

    So precise and carefully built.

    I so love these lines:

    "layers of thickness
    like the dendrochronology
    of trees..."

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  2. Thank you Megan.... Nature has it's way of inspiring me.

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  3. Precise and beautiful! Keep writing!!!

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