(‘Tells with silence the last light breaking’)
Tells –
utters / informs / relates … and ah,
what Katherine did was relate
with –
alongside, in the company of … she was one
who was never away from, always with
silence –
absence of noise, deep quiet … she could be
noisy, loud with laughter, yet in her presence
I found deep peace; we could be quiet together,
needing no words (though, both, workers in words)
the –
definitive … to define her would take many words
or none; one could write pages of rapturous description,
which would have to include somewhere her laughter,
her huge capacity for joy – yet wholly fail to capture her
last –
at last, the end, finality … but there is nothing final about
this long friendship, sisterhood, true understanding, ever
light –
shining, radiant, illumination, clarity, the light of knowledge
… she shed light on the hidden; also, alight, lit up our lives
breaking –
coming apart, fracturing, dividing into pieces … separating
into past and future, self and other, here and gone, alive / dead
Inspired by a prompt from Laura Bloomsbury, for dVerse: Taking a Fine Line Down.
A word acrostic focusing on definitions of the words chosen. The line, 'tells with silence the last light breaking' is from Dylan Thomas's A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London. (To get the formatting to work on the blog page, I needed to put the words above each verse instead of to the left – which perhaps differentiates it from an acrostic, but I think it works as a poem.)
