We are sitting together on this curb of your childhood. I warn: the asphalt may make your feet bleed as you cross.
We hear the meadowlark flirting, the sweetness of soft grass and daylillies smile their welcome,
Come to the meadow of woman.
Thistles hide, thorns…the stinging nettle…
I sigh.
You drop my hand and run across.
Curb of your Childhood
- by Merrin Wilding
Writing
Cremation, India, 1983
Flesh to fire on Friday Freed those bones, that blood, to boil and burst
Merrin Wilding
May 2, 2021