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Thursday, December 07, 2023

Wait (1976) by Melanie Bloodgood

 

Like the mystery of seafoam

a bubble was blown

and she was curled inside.

As noiselessly as a baby's rattle,

pinkly dropped, is swallowed up

in a fringe of long green grasses,

daylight began as a film on glass

and night starred her reflections.

Lonesome she stood to watch the progress

of others more thematically currented by.

As she waited she began idly to scribble

oceans of words, which were then

tightly capped and stored away in heavy opaque bottles.

Wait cooled blue on her cheeks

on her lips, the knight

who stood more amorous

over her intricate sand castles.




Written by my mom,  

Melanie Bloodgood, 1976

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