Transparent Words - Poetry

 
Sunday Afternoons
 
By Maryann Hazen-Stearns

 

There is just no accounting
for desire or the way longing
takes up with your heart the way
you find that even a quart
of milk a week is still
too much or the way
a bathrobe hangs forgotten
from a hook for too long
and must be washed
from dingy neglect. No, no
accounting for the sigh
that escapes your lungs
like a heartbreak on the breeze
after a good soaking rain
on Sunday afternoon or the way
the newspaper is folded so neat
at the foot of the couch
or the way the throw pillows
are never thrown.
 
 
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