Getting Away

from Choral Soliloquies (I) by Stephen Mead

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A woman on the lam from her husband and abusive, unhappy marriage

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Getting Away

Counting the houses, the lights, the windows...
It’s good to keep track, this path demanding
focus or, no, I demand that, make my movement
the most immediate goal.
All else has been left:
attachments, possessions,
the claustrophobia of a trailer cell
hoarding knick knacks of deceit.
Perhaps I dramatize. Some days were perfection:
the gift of sun on scrubbed floors, coffee before
the mail and starting on jobs...
Why belittle what my husband began tearing at?
Those flaws found were delusional or minor cracks
still glued whole, of essence, like veins
of glaze in a fine antique bowl.
So our skins were bound, something to be held,
touched, looked upon with care
‘til the smashing flew its furies in:
daily unreasonable bouts of knuckles, stares, words.
“We can get help... We should...”
Stone would want to listen more, stone, a harbor,
willing, yielding, these boulders I could shoulder in
for the night in this park
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Here are my hands. Here is my scarf, my shawl.
I will tie and pull them round.
I will get through this night
& away from counting houses, counting
lights, the face of some god, my
husband, in all these closed doors.

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from Choral Soliloquies (I), released May 20, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

110387__cormi__night-in-the-forest, Shores of Avalon Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech.com

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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