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When my fingers trace

your most delicate arch

run gingerly and freely

over every curve and valley

This is where I find peace..”

He whispered each word

as if it were his last

as if his bones

were being left

white and vulnerable

in the heat of the desert

as if his heart was

left to languish in the midday

exposed in a sharpened sky

I felt each letter etched

into my spine as I inched

closer to his craving

I wanted to smell his hunger

taste his aching thirst

move him to the edge

where the sun kisses the earth

“You know where to find me

here in the soft spaces of the air

there in the quiet place in your mind

wherever you are, I am there”

Selah.

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Ann says:  ”Selah” is a Hebrew concept that translates roughly as “Stop and listen.”

Copyright 2012 by Michelle Kennedy. Photo: Stock Image, Arches National Park

these old stone walls go on for miles on end

all gathered from the breast of stubborn soil

then winter frost doth make stones rise again

then laid up line on line – long walls of toil

demarking what is yours from what is mine

all gathered from the breast of stubborn soil

made comely both by moss and crawling vine

these stately stones the paeans of poet’s pens

demarking what is yours from what is mine

I love to sit upon them now and then

in silence hear the wind and nature’s song

these stately stones the paeans of poet’s pens

these walls, the hem, to patchwork fields belong

“good fences make good neighbors” quoth Robert Frost

in silence hear the wind and nature’s song

the wisdom of his words on none is lost

of old stone walls that go for miles on end

“good fences make good neighbors” quoth Robert Frost

a diff’rent frost doth make stones rise again

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Copyright 2012 by Stephen Berwaldt

Image: Tommy Martin, Moss-Covered Stone Wall and Trees in Dense Shade