Salty Like Tears - Kay Crista

[Larry Robinson]

Salty Like Tears

 
When my daughter moved away to college

was the same week I had to give all our chickens away,

their sweet voices murmuring in the garden no more

 
was the same week her friend walked into the mountains of the Pacific Coast Trail and disappeared without a trace.

Our candle vigil burning through the days of packing

 
was not only the time of our own separation 

but her dog and my dog, my dog and her, her dog and me,

our pack now 200 miles apart

 
And that night I read Ellen Bass’ poem

“When You Came Back”,

and for a moment

I felt our lives rewind until you were 

once again that little magic bean 

growing inside me.

 
Today I sat in a parking lot

with a bag of chips,

thinking how all my life I’ve had a sweet tooth

but now I want everything 

salty like tears. 



	- Kay Crista



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