Carpe Diem
"Sparkling Stars" #13, " "
the childless woman,
how tender she is
to the dolls!
© Ransetsu (Tr. Blyth)
The words fell hard on them, "You will probably never conceive. "Chances are one in a.." A mind numbing number was all they heard. Each clung to the other's hand. Looking at a dreamed of family evaporate before them. A ghost family. A family never to be. Wombs to carry and breasts to nourish laying fallow as a drought stricken field. how tender she is
to the dolls!
© Ransetsu (Tr. Blyth)
clouds move overhead
no crops for harvest this year
empty rain guage
© Janice Adcock
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| Photograph by Matt Black for Matter |
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