Blanket

a warm and cozy wrap-around
(my heart it tightly coils)

thick and viscous layers of weight
(they keep my brain sedated)

to throw it off, to drop the cloth
would be a liberty

a freedom to erase the past
and everything I've done to me

(and he)

Waiting

"Waiting" © Copyright 2005 Katy M. Savage

I took this photo while waiting for a subway train in Manhattan in June of 2005. The subway system is at once inclusive and isolating, as thousands of complete strangers intimately share space and time, but seem to avoid human connection as much as possible. "Waiting" seems to capture this dichotomy as the cold construct of the tunnel functions as meeting ground as well as rigid barrier to its passengers.