WRITING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS

Red and Blue 7.  8x11".                                              © by Ruth Zachary

Writing about relationships between people is a favorite topic for me. The relationship may be between relatives, lovers, friends, or others I observe relating to each other. The title, Blood Tide,  was from subjects suggested by different members in a poetry class, drawn from a hat.

Blood Tide

At night the house breathes blood

            from all the leavetakings of blood

                        relations, a cavernous void left in a

                                     family once replete with connections.

So many dead years on that flood of bleeding

            sorrows and betrayals. Now the living children

                        of those blood relatives travel on blood

                                    into unknown countries, scattered, separate, dilute.

A grand daughter asks about her ancestry.

            A daughter tells her blood is not important;

                        it is only a butterfly birthmark

                                     pooled in the small of her back.

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