Coming home to an empty house

Coming home to an empty house Tread carefully, a snail on the doorstep, a spider in the hall. A silverfish scuttles under the kitchen units. A woodlouse half way across the lounge carpet. A bluebottle cruises from room to room. A pigeon rummages in the creeper outside my bedroom window. On the dressing table Buddha […]

Day 18.

  Silence. W.S.Merwin uses a vixen as metaphor. http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=15406 Metaphors for silence.