This was written for the Matinee Muse prompt “Guardian” on Writer’s Island…and as a poetic reaction to “Stranger” and “To The Stranger”. Since I wrote the first two poems, I wondered how the mysterious big city import would respond to the speaker…and wrote this as his response in a hay(na)ku chain. Enjoy.

-Nicole
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division -
my heart
cleaved in two

an
ache travels
its septic split

I
guard this
tender raw wound

with
an aloof
tight-lipped mystery

If
I retire
my heart’s sentry

and
show you
this ancient wound

will
you stop
its fatal bleeding?

Written 6/28/08
© 2008 Nicole Nicholson. All Rights Reserved.

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