I was still there "negative spaces" jabberwocky submission #2 poem
I was there Somewhere, sleeping in time Waiting for you to pick up on the other line Haggard Hollow Houses Along thin paper roads Even when morning announces We’ll be up, catching toads I was still there Rolling in the lawn If it’s a race, you’ll beat me at it Shy as a fawn Quick as a rabbit I was there When the storm came through Shut every window, hide in the tub It’s too bad how spring always flew I was still there When you swallowed the mud Collapsed are the lungs Long days of silence Cold water runs Baby’s breath, violets I was there We bury the innocence Here a child lies Your mother, how she cries I was still there Empty is your space The periwinkle haze Absent in your thoughts I miss you when december rots