Grace – 2011 posting

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She stifled her passion

with a bone cork

and Earth became

a rocking jug

with aching sides

and tears

that leaked through cracks

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and there was naught

but a dry, brown light

across the sky.

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And when the gods looked down

they cursed

and pulled out the plug

grinding it to dust

with their fists.

 

Earth trembled and roared

in a great awakening

of heat and light

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and in her heart

there rose

an endless rainbow fount

of love undamned.

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(c)  1995, 2019  Betty Hayes Albright

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