Scarlet's Poetry Den "Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover"

Within the Horizon (Listen to the poem in RealAudio G2)

within the horizon
catastrophes occur
with soap opera precision
somewhat like a mythology

an old woman sobs
into the handkerchief
brandished since Eden

ocean - tempestuous cesspool
of those tears
over which I am suspended
puppet of my umbilical cord
like some curious Arachne
watching watching
each detail pieced into the sky-puzzle

that old woman
distinctly resembles my grandmothers
who died crossing the plains
Rorschach image
ever-renewed in mountains and clouds

spectres of The Fates
multiply before my eyes
swirl in some timeless ritual arabesque

aged Eve
weary Earth
dusty Luna
is it true I am your sorrow?

why was I picked
to enter your grim sorority
on this strange globe?

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