Uninvited Guest

Photograph by Donna Donato

Dry, lined, withdrawn

floating in the wind

bending, brittle, rustle of leaves

rocks, buried, rigid, cement

smooth, gray and embedded

lines are drawn, drawn within

veined, brown, old, rejected

harsh realities submit their requests

 clang, signaling weathered change

Transferring tones into cruel, forced connections - Into and out again, alternating futures pointing the way...Swept away into vast smoky skies - A soul set free to drift, to skitter across a hard and cold rocky surface, separated by patterns, signaling steps from dusty ruin.

The conundrum of purity and wholeness;

Sin and the sinner; not without the other, the uninvited guest comes to rest, holy and damned.