Wednesday's Woe - Your Closet...

A Girl's Closet, originally uploaded by Sophie Schirmer Photography.

Wednesday's Woe

Your Closet

"How long your closet held a whiff of you,

Long after hangers hung austere and bare.

I would walk in and suddenly the true

Sharp sweet sweat scent controlled the air

And life was in that small still living breath.

Where are you? since so much of you is here,

Your unique odour quite ignoring death.

My hands reach out to touch, to hold what's dear

And vital in my longing empty arms.

But other clothes fill up the space, your space,

And scent on scent send out strange false alarms.

Not of your odour there is not a trace.

But something unexpected still breaks through

The goneness to the presentness of you."

~Poem by Madeleine L'Engle

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~Poem by Madeleine L'Engle, The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle