Confined

 

Am considering using this Maori Magpie design on the cover of my sanctuary-themed series.

It also serves to illustrate the next poem in the collection.

Confined

My life has shrunk

into the confines

of a stark box room.

 

Locked into celibacy

and silence, I withdraw

into watercolour,

 

express myself

in a gallery of insects,

trees and wildflowers,

 

wait for a black bird;

rook, raven or crow

to call me home.

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