Whose heart is this
battered, shattered,
scattered in pieces on my bedroom floor?

Ah, it's mine.

Unspoken, broken,
I block the entrance,
shoulder the bureau to barricade the door;
I quote the raven: "Nevermore!"

Text, image and audio © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved. 

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