Some (Well-Meaning) Advice

Tim Walker

Note: From my poetry thesis, "Mementos of a Hostile City."  Also, the final version of Somehow the Heart, published on July 26, 2010.


1 Guard your heart.

There is something to be said
for the advice of those who seem to know better
Those who have drowned in words

2 But, there is longing—

A cracked bottle
the tide ebbs back to shore

An unread message
mottled with blue ink

3 Eventually,

I will crush the bottle
into a coarse mosaic

I will wash the message
into a deeper blue


Written: circa Spring 2004