Speaking
How can it be impossible to speak?
How can it be impossible to spill from your mouth
those shining moments where the thought
that was just trying on new clothes
glanced up and understood
that the reflection
was a reflection
For the fallen girls and the falling girls and boys,
that they may rise
and be themselves at last,
remembering the best they ever dared
imagine
within.
Oil on canvas, 32" x 26",
© Elizabeth Morag Emmerson 2009.
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