Tag: broken

• January 24, 2021

  Appealing / Broken

  

  RDP: AppealingFOWC: Broken What makes a break appealing? The roughed edges and crumbling pieces? The promise of what could be? A gold plated realigning Designed and designated A relic, broken, now beautiful Useless, now worthy A crack in society Sealed to history
• January 20, 2019

  Knotted Hands

  My grandfather planted this tree with roots poisoned after the war.His father watered it, the seed which came before.My father nurtured them, these roots of ruined fiber.This tree grew ever higher.Its fruit, rotting, my mother prepared for me.She sweetened it, tried to soothe it down,Nothing could disguise the smell of these roots rotting in the…