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.
