in dusty archives
you carried silent hope
walked
damp earth
marked by granite
headstones
weighted memories
hushed
beneath the soil
you carried
a birth certificate
like a memento
haunted by
faceless names
wrinkled
and frayed
in the width
of time.
your beard
grows white ~
fingers tremble
unsilenced hope
flows in the
blood we share,
our mother’s
secret
unearthed.
Paulette Calasibetta is inspired by nature, and the spirit of the human condition; motivated by celebrations of life, and the weight of the hollowness of grief. Published in Ariel Chart, October Hill, The Academy of the Heart and Mind, Spank the Carp, and various other publications and anthologies.