| STILL NO MORE Once Delicate Scallops of ripples Flounced across quiet waters Kissing the sandy banks and then With a flirty toss began again to Undulate sinuously returning Occasionally revealing the Pearly underside of Her wave Once And now Delicate turns Choppy and Churning And roiling Boiling beneath the Surface Frothing in a murderous rage A whirlpool Twisting around and around and around Trapping the calm Inside Caged by a wall of icy breakers Threatening to crash Upon Shores once sandy smooth Now strewn With the remains Of a silent soul Still now Not by choosing meditation But paralyzed By Grief And fear and Retrospection by Sheryl McCurdy |
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| Left With Rings Of Jasmine A droplet beaded then slipped from the gleaming faucet breaking the golden skin of the bath sending a small ringlet of ridges to coil and lovingly lap my knees tented above the water dunes the heat rose on mists of jasmine oiling the mirror , the walls, the red tiled floor near my jawline a pulse throbbed rocking the scented broth with each beat of my heart I heard nothing but this I felt nothing except weak imagined at last my body dissolving into the oily brew twirling around and around as the water drained away leaving nothing but another glistening ring around the porcelain tub by Sheryl McCurdy |
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