For a challenge at Oscraps.
This is not how its supposed to look; I could not figure out how to do it right. But this will have to do.
The face sketch is by Lee Zimmerman, the photo is mine, other elements are from NBK Design. The font is Sweetly Broken. The poem is mine:
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Which face shall I wear today? The old woman
gazing into her garden, mourning a lost
childhood? The young woman at the mirror
preparing to greet a new love? The child
climbing trees in her school clothes, white
socks and maryjanes?
Heat falls from the sky, seeps up through
cracked ground. Everything living goes limp,
bows down, suffers. We all suffer. We choose
it, welcome it, open to it like fields open
to rain. More, more; then enough, enough;
then too much, too much.
Today I shall wear the infants face, the open
face, the one that has not learned to close.
It takes it all in, drought, flood, the blossoming
for bees.
***
