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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EMPTY HOUSE, by GARNET HAMRICK
First Line: Silence sits a-rocking in her chair
Last Line: Craving warmth that comes with spring.
Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation
First Line: Silence sits a-rocking in her chair
Last Line: Craving warmth that comes with spring.
Subject(s): Absence; Silence; Separation; Isolation
Silence sits a-rocking in her chair—
Silence garbed in shadows, capped and shawled
In knitted shadows of the yesterday,
(When she was here in more than soul),
Makes of this room an empty thing—
The house a jointed wall set up as for a play.
Dust-fingers cling to apron folds
Behind the door ... and days leap by.
We, born of her, look round and see
Each other as a stranger in her place—
Wondering at the fact of birth
That proves us cuttings from the mother tree.
Silence lies a-sleeping in her bed—
Silence, weary-eyed and drawn of lip,
Makes of this house a heartless thing.
And we, begot in it, go stalking round,
Bedazed, like creatures sick from winter
Craving warmth that comes with spring.
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