Strangers
By Annie Finch
She turned to gold and fell in love.
She danced life upside down.
She opened her wild eyes again
and asked some strangers in.
The strangers felt her in and out.
They found her outsides thin.
Since her heart was still and hard,
they knocked her insides in.
Copyright Credit: Reprinted with permission of the author and Story Line Press.
Source: Eve (Story Line Press, 1997)