This says it better than I ever could

[Voo]

Poems from Someone You Know

Poems from someone you know
are a responsibility
like confidences told over kitchen tables
on rainy afternoons

An offering with hands cupped
around a fragile beauty
letting you in for a look

Received and accepted, but held carefully
lest the vulnerabilities are touched too harshly
and like fragile crystal
are shattered into pieces

Dorothy B. Marshall


Copyright ©2004 Dorothy Marshall