Wordle 46

New wordle words from Brenda's The Sunday Whirl:

coatless, white, metal, shadow,
kitchen, returned, prefers, unaware,
admonish, fullness, daughter, woolly


On Motherless Daughters
It's the end of autumn,
dead leaves swirl in a ghostly vortex,
skitter across gravestones black as death.
Woolly shadows flicker as she returns
from the cemetery, enters the kitchen,
only room in the house where she
still feels her mother's gentle presence.
The mourners have all gone home,
the church ladies gone, too, after
setting out macaroni hot dish,
lime jello salad and two kinds of pie,
sternly admonishing her to eat.
She prefers this lonely solitude
to the earlier fuss. The neighbors
were ready with kind words meant
to comfort but she craves alone time.
There's a painful fullness in her chest,
like fragmented metal piercing her heart.
Swept away by grief, she's unaware
she's finally begun to cry.
Pitiful, wrenching sobs convulse her body
while inconsolable tears stream
down her pale, white face.