Wednesday, May 9, 2012

What Will Grow

Writer's Corner is pleased to present a poem submitted for our current theme of What Will Grow.


Eternal Child
By Jane Harris-Zsovan 


Hot Sticky Tar
holds her feet to the ground
while
Long Skinny Legs
as  brown
As the hills
as golden
As the Sun Bleached Grass
simply slide
themselves
Out of Dime Store Thongs.
Barefooted Girl
weaving
On a shiny Red Bike
too big for her
Aspiring
to grow into it
Free. Unafraid
of the future
--like any child.
Never to have
Sandpaper hands
stuck in
Dishwater. Toilet Bowls. Or Diapers
--An Eternal Child
Digging coal out of the hills
Gathering rose hips and wild flowers
Hunting frogs in the slough
and
  Dreaming Impossible dreams.

If you have a poem, or a piece of prose (500 words or less) you'd like to share, even if it doesn't fit the theme, we'd love to see it. Send your submission to awcswriterscorner@gmail.com

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