Not Yet a Bust
©2012 Susan Noyes Anderson
Image: Big Room by Andrew Wyeth
In the end, we left the room quite empty.
Cold, save for the errant ray
of day-old sun that filtered past the pane.
In the end, we left the room quite empty.
Cold, save for the errant ray
of day-old sun that filtered past the pane.
He said yes. She said no.
She said high. He said low.
He said dark. She said light.
She said wrong. He said right.
Has it really been a decade
since you were in my arms?
Ten years ago, I bid farewell
to you and all your charms.
I want to say
the worth of a puddle
is in the scenery it reflects.
Of all the treasures in the earth
and underneath the sea,
no prize is valued more than this,
nor held more gratefully:
Zada was woman, “the lucky one.”
She fed them from her rich, round bowl—
the milk of human kindness, poi of pain.
Protected by the
dark, we cling
to blind security.
We’re yellow at
the center
egg whites of our
eyes won’t see.