the door that could have opened; all the green;
the window on the second floor; the scene
below of fields and forests; how I look
from sky, to room, to pages of my book,
wanting an answer to the boundless quest
and finding only woe, another test;
the seasons’ turning picture book; the rain,
the way it washes making mud; the stain
you left me with; the days and weeks that pass
uncertain of their calendar; the mass
of breath and movement in this cloudy air;
the roof you made for me; the way you care
even beyond my reach, in how you bloom
this spring in memory, despite your tomb.
Mary Meriam
Mary Meriam’s poems have appeared in Literary Imagination, Poetry, Post Road, Prelude, Subtropics, and The Poetry Review.
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