
Photo by Kim Nelson ~ Malaga, Spain
I wondered about the challenges ~ social, emotional, physical ~ of living outside the norm, homeless, when I snapped this photo in late spring, 2011. This poem shares some of that silent pondering.
Wild hearts
beat brutal,
sentimental thoughts
aside
Cozying up
is futile
the aggressor has
his pride
Trusting predator
tolls death-knell
in this milieu
fierce and wide
Neither sullen,
angry, grudging,
just survival
tacks applied
No emotion
*Inspired by Three Word Wednesday ~ Brutal, Sullen, Trust













