The Ocean Dry
Emotion revealed
Is an ocean dry.
When your words
Choke for a vent,
As a fish for
Liquid life.
When the salt
Dries to your cheek,
Like an exposed
Rock.
Nothing worse
Than the long pause –
I reach for you
And life sifts
Through my hands
Like so many grains
Of sand.
by Suzanne Bronson on Wednesday, February 13, 2008