Skye Gordon

Unfiltered Water

They have fallen silently, uninterested

like little drops of rain.

Transparent and minute portals of ‘depression,’

tiny windows of sorrow pushing toward desolate planes.

A wrinkle in time, in the ages gone by.

Yesterday’s apertures and today’s forgotten tears. 

{Skye Gordon, California Correctional Institution, #P-11002,
4A 7B-102, PO Box 1902, Tehachapi, CA 93581.}