Of Innocence and Whippoorwills

A woman’s chamber Morning blossoms All is brightness Asked and answered People all askance Until he enters Child of daylight But five years Confirmed on fingers Held out in hopeful innocence Suspicions melt Disapproval flees fleetly Edges smoothed by plump hands On cheeks youthfully drawn Both palms pressing Lines of worry diminish Clears and flows from foreheads fears Now what’s left is Warm and wondrous Held aloft on milky breath Lightness, joyful, hearts and feet Dance amidst laughter In the growing light The sun rises higher As do spirits Life, a new day Ushered in by one so small Ladies Waiting Now endlessly jubilant Even within a mundane sky

Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol) has had her poetry featured in several anthologies including Untimely Frost. Her fiction has been published in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others.

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