Salt Peppered Past

Paper-white parchment, awash in black

Heartstrings, unraveled, to tie the sack

Buried where springtime awakes lilac

Past out the window — no looking back

Saliferous tears scream and break the

panes

Ventriloquial pitch seeping violet veins

Shift, shape and spell out each, spilled like grains

Recollecting ‘forgotten’ thoughts, each refrain