Sunday, 29 July 2007

A Coin in her Mouth

burying copies of myself
i dig up bones
of a small girl
who used to build castles
out of twigs
poked into the ground


~lily


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

always breaking through the ground with your words...

leaves me with such fine images...

Lily said...

my little girl thanks you Childe, as she plays in the backyard holding her bundle of muddy sticks and her coin with a buffed all night shine :)

~lily