Opportunity

photo taken at Project Row Houses art installation by Lisa Qualls April 12, 2009

Opportunity

Lisa Murphy-Lamb

If given the chance

free of domestic

chores dog hair

in corners lunches

unmade souls

to be soothed.

Could I speak volumes of silence and

write while the hours go numb

around me?

Would the taste of

whiskey deep

into the night well

past my hour of

slumber when sleep

comes on the heels 

of children

take 

advantage of ink dark

hours and

sharpen the edges of

my mind?

What is the flavour

of a creative soul

unfettered by domestic call?

Is it a mouthful of

dialogue around a honey-

brown surface entering the moors

and parties of

writers past?

Would my heart 

pulsate divergently

at the edge

of possibility

and would I fall

free

untethered?