Despair at Dawn Engraved
Framed Work, Poetry Rebecca Tillett Framed Work, Poetry Rebecca Tillett

Despair at Dawn Engraved

Light arrived without warmth, pressing on my chest
Morning bird song too much like sirens
Traveling away from me
Until the silence absorbs them
And I hear only the weeping echo
from the empty room behind my bones
A lifeless aquarium where a heart once dwelled
Or an endless ocean
I couldn’t bear to cross
To face another day

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Upward to Heaven
Art Collage, Poetry Rebecca Tillett Art Collage, Poetry Rebecca Tillett

Upward to Heaven

The original version of this piece (that you may have seen if you stopped by our booth in Houston or Dallas) had the subject’s head inside a birdcage. But even though I loved the concept in theory, there was something about it that didn’t feel right and I didn’t love it

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