[ZESTPoets] well poem

[jane bhandari]

'Listening' reminded me of this poem I wrote about four years ago. it combines childhood memories with those of a later date. Oddly, children don't like it much, perhaps because of its hint of something nasty at the bottom of the well.
Jane Bhandari
 
DEEP WELL
  
Deep well, fern-furred,
Reflects the distant sky
Like a silver salver.
 
We children looking down
Saw our several heads
Black and sharply drawn,
Arranged on the salver:
A bloodless beheading.
 
Someone dropped a stone,
And Salome danced away
And took our heads with her,
Left the frightened sky
Shivering in the green dark.
 
Looking into a well
With my small daughter,
Thin branches laced the water:
Our disembodied heads
Caught up in their net
Until a frog stone-skipped
Across the bright water, made
Overlapping rings instead,
And the falling splash
Pulled more sky
Down into the well.
 
And afterwards
We heard the splash
Climbing back up the well. 
 
 
Jane Bhandari
 
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