International Poetry Competition
Grand Prize Winner: 1998
After a Miscarriage
by Harriet Brown
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Relax!
Home Pond
When spring came I came alive again.
The air was finally gentle
and I breathed deeply of sweet
lilac and hyacinth and some faint
scent I couldn’t find or name.
It wafted through the house
like light, forgotten in our long
winter of darkness. The plums
and cherry trees around the block
were laced with flowerlets
and tiny leaves and made a subtle
dazzling of hope. Not a forgetting
but a softening, as if the harsh
outlines of loss were growing
over now with something
like the tender grass of spring,
its blades a clear luminous green,
a color from childhood,
from a time before grief
and its terrible healing
makes traitors of us all.
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