November 2022
Bio Note: I am an award-winning poet and artist. My poems have been published in several anthologies, in newspapers and online, including The Long Island Quarterly, The Tipton Poetry Journal, and The High Window. My first full-length book of poetry, Glimpse, will be published by Kelsay Books in 2023.
Heart to Heart, Bone to Bone
you present your guilt
a struggling, butterfly-shaped heart
pinned to a board
and say, let's examine it
you are puzzled
you don't recognize the shadow
of that hurtful stranger
who sometimes walked in your shoes
wore your clothes
put on your hat in the morning
as for my own child
he saw the lost and wounded shadow
who, from time to time,
slipped into my skin
as easily as a stocking
let us agree
we have much to learn
about the extravagance
of human aspirations
how we need
how we cling
how we forsake
let us make our examination
remembering
every parent is a student
with something to confess
let us forgive
for I am still woven, heart to heart
with my child
still knit together, bone to bone
with you
©2022 Victoria Twomey
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