Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone, Horse's Skull with White Rose

Contributor Series 7: The Confessional Diary of Bone
Horse's Skull with White Rose
(after the painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1931)
By Neil Ellman

Picked clean
By the merciless sun
Bleached a white calm
Never to run again

In barren valleys
Vacant eyes
Remember running free
And wild

When wind
With delicate hands
Loosened the reins
And raised the dust

How brittle the skull
How perfect the rose
That propagates
In crumbling bone

Where death commands
The silent hills
And eyes are blinded
By the sun.


Neil's most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was Tasting Words, which opened Contributor Series 6: A Currency of Words in September.

Posted by Annmarie at 12/19/2010 12:00 AM
Categories: today's words, Contributor Series 7
Tags: Contributor Series 7 Neil Ellman bone life death Georgia OKeeffe
 

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