The Whole of Life in a Day

A Poem by L.M. Browning

Photo by Andres Perez on Unsplash

for V.

I have become Mrs. Dalloway,

throwing parties to cover the silence.

Come with me to the lighthouse.

It is time to settle the unspoken.

I’ll buy the flowers myself.

Scattering the petals along the shore

so I can find my way back from the river.