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Mature Lady Smiling

Foreward

In this fore-word I find myself cast back in time...

as I remember seeing icicles in the desert

while a young child rising before the sun did

at my grandfather's side on the back porch

as slender stalagmites

hung from under the eaves

a sense of awe and excitement that some invisible

giant had been at work while I slept

transforming the drab view of sage brush and sand

into a fariy land of straightened unicorn horns

and prismatic hues cast from the diffident orb

rising from the long blue line of hills

as water-usually so absent waited in unmitigated

splendor for us to rise and watch them drip away

captured, immobilized, shy...

staying such a brief moment in time

to have remained for a lifetime

within my mind.

I would be impoverished without it

without knowing why.

 

A.R. Koheen

 

 

Asia Rachael Cohen

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