Riverine

(for R)

by T.P. Wilkinson / May 9th, 2021

In life’s casks

Does other’s sorrows
the river drain?
Sated roots
sadness fruits
dripping sands
eroded stones
from tears
washed through
once tender hands.
Take the sweetness
taste the juice
once beneath feet
gently squeezed.
Fill the feelings
in life’s casks
float to the ocean
where swim
life’s tasks.

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..

This article was posted on Sunday, May 9th, 2021 at 8:02am and is filed under Poetry.