She didn’t know what to do
with this necklace of grief,
little pearls of sadness,
added to one by one,
yellowed by years of wear,
softened by long sepia days
of tea, and solitude, and waiting.
(c) 2018, by Hannah Six
Image: The Pearl Necklace (1905),
by Henry Tonks, oil on canvas
This poem was inspired by Marguerite Duras’ novel, The Lover
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