April 2022
Bio Note: I have been a poet and an artist most of my life and consider both forms of expression to be my best friends. I am always searching for moments in life that deserve to held still and then described with words, shape and color. I am most gratified when a reader feels I have understood their inner experience. My work has been published recently on Sancturary-Magazine.com, BigCityLit.com, and poetrybay.com.
Candy Hearts
even now I recall
before you fell into that river making its way to the sea
how, when this faithful daughter
dropped the morphine upon your tongue
you opened your mouth like a baby bird
perceiving only flickering lights and darting shadows
even then
I believed you would rise and walk again
as if miracles are handed out
as easily as candy hearts, to the good fathers
who, according to the laws of my bewildered mind
must remain glued to the spine of life
as if all your days
were like the endless pages in an immortal book
decorated with tarot-like paintings
of all the indelible people you had been
the son, the brother, the father, the mentor,
the joker, the imperfect prince,
the teacher, the musician, the artist,
the lover, the husband, the friend
but never the ghost, left emptyhanded
passed over for a needed miracle
even then I believed, you were the swimmer
too strong to be drowned in an ocean of stars
©2022 Victoria Twomey
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