This first appeared in my "Poetic Ponderings" column in Wilmette Living.
Jane Hall is a long time Wilmette resident and my wife. Her poem Hairpins was a finalist in the 2018 Faulkner - Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Poetry comes when the spirit moves her. Ink Smears began as images scribbled on an envelope, the final edit, a collaboration between us. She remembers sitting at her desk looking at a picture, reflecting on her childhood home. The two houses, evocative metaphors on life.
Ink Smears
the woman in the window stares out
fountain pen meets blank paper
wisps of wind through cracked
glass pane tousle hair,
rain falling from roof
hits copper, rotting timber,
years of neglect
ponders and stares at small gold
frame picture of another house
blanketed with snow
on a lake,
deep shadows cover the lawn
trees that no longer shade, obscure
the family’s rooms, windows,
her room,
void
who lived there
droplets pour, hit paper, blur thoughts
Ink Smears was first published in Front Porch Review, April 2021.Poetry comes when the spirit moves her. Ink Smears began as images scribbled on an envelope, the final edit, a collaboration between us. She remembers sitting at her desk looking at a picture, reflecting on her childhood home. The two houses, evocative metaphors on life.
Ink Smears
the woman in the window stares out
fountain pen meets blank paper
wisps of wind through cracked
glass pane tousle hair,
rain falling from roof
hits copper, rotting timber,
years of neglect
ponders and stares at small gold
frame picture of another house
blanketed with snow
on a lake,
deep shadows cover the lawn
trees that no longer shade, obscure
the family’s rooms, windows,
her room,
void
who lived there
droplets pour, hit paper, blur thoughts
Ink Smears was first published in Front Porch Review, April 2021.
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