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WHCshortverses: Symbiotic: Linked Crystallines
Selected by Elizabeth St Jacques
Sault St. Marie, Canada

*Editor's Choice Selection

 

Sinking into Dusk, a linked crystalline

Maria Steyn
Africa
Marjorie Buettner
Minnesota, USA

This hot summer night,
the ever-moving stars above your face and mine.


Heat lightning in the distance;
feeling the bones beneath your fragile skin.


Windchimes at the studio window;
the lightness of hands shaping clay.


Weeding the flower garden;
where the beetle burrowed a deep roundness.


The broken warmth inside a fallen nest;
branch shadows across the path.


Mother failing with each grasp of breath;
oxygen mask over her face.


Mountain summit;
the faint glow of ancient redwoods sinking into dusk.

 

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