She stared at me with her marble eyes
and knotted my heart so tight
it turned to splintered stone—
pieces pierced my soul
and turned it as well.
Then—now, I am alone–
unmarked granite
above a grave not yet dug.
Lynette G. Esposito, MA Rutgers, has been published in Poetry Quarterly, North of Oxford, Twin Decades, Remembered Arts, Reader’s Digest, US1, and others. She was married to Attilio Esposito and lives with eight rescued muses in Southern New Jersey.