Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Pieces Left Behind; a very, short story

Acrylic & Ink
14x11"

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things
and the eye of the heart sees the invisible.
                                                                   Richard of Saint Victor

Pieces Left Behind

I
She leaves pieces of herself around the house-
rings on window sills, tablets on tables, pens attached to journals,
and books - books all over the place.

II
When I'm gone, she thinks, and others want to remove these objects -
you'll say, Leave that! don't touch it, don't move it.

They'll think you're crazy.

III
Until their moment of loss appears
and they realize -
Oh! - 
that was his connection to her.
She lived in those inanimate objects -
they came alive when she wore them,
touched them,
made them part of her.

As long as those objects 
were where she placed them,
she was there, too.