Forsaken

she looks

and looks

searching

peering

gazing

endlessly

into the windows

of the

Abandoned

and

Renounced

eyes wide

and aching

feathers wet and

Forlorn

dripping with

grey

Renunciation

her scrabbling crooks

Relinquishing

their grip on the sill

stumbling in the darkness

she tosses backward

the white cloth of

Surrender

Waives goodbye

and makes her way down the

empty highway

oil on canvas

30x48

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