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I got polka-dotted today, at the park

Under the clouds

Next to the ducks eating bread

Next to the pale lavender brown egret

                 that came for a visit.

I’ve never been polka-dotted

Before this morning

Before Rachael showed me how.

What wonder what delight

                       these 26 letters bring me;

               how they tumbleweed

                             through [...]

Juncture

Here…

©2006 Sue Norwood & Jim O'Neil

 

Between adolescence and womanhood

lies a bridge, a crossing over

an opaque, murky, slow moving river

cutting through tall rocks with striped

layers of dark rust and pale blush light [...]

Nothing to Prove

You had nothing to prove

To me…

It was love at first sight

How could you not love that face

Blond hair, piercing blue eyes, wearing red

Be still my heart…

Wrote you a poem on your birthday

Which I left amongst the papers

On that big desk

“The biggest desk in the building,”

You [...]

You Meet No Strangers

They arrive like dreams in the night

Or angels in a storm

When your car breaks down in knee deep snow

In the emergency lane along side the highway

They help answer prayers

The bartender, the Circle K clerk with the loan of a pen

With advertising on the side and phone [...]