The Bear

In the time I've been away from my books, I have been playing around with paints, instead. Completing a small collection of annotated gauche paintings and poetry, I had also found time to work on this: the accompanying partner to my earlier abstract work, 'The Cat'. I give you...

Fabric of Love

Something old, today made new!

This fabric called love;
I make a rope of it,
I wring my hands, and I
mope from it,
and when, at last, it seems
that it just might end-
I step up to the noose
and fall right down again.