Widow's Walk

Widow's Walk



Widow, in Sanskrit
"ugly, empty" for too long.
Walking the darkened hallways,
the moon in eclipse,
she cannot find safe harbor
only his dusty lunch pail.


Written for: "The Writer's Cramp" 

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