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Pour it
through your fingers
taste its color
on your tongue
be it raw, or breaded
with salty metaphor.
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Take its temperature
on your forehead
then weigh it tenderly
careful
not to put your thumb
on the scale.
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© 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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Posts Tagged ‘meaning’
Ascension
Posted in Deep Water, Poetry 1990's, tagged ascension, climbing, Love, meaning, mountain, Poetry on May 21, 2012| 22 Comments »
In her long climb
she stumbles on memories,
sends them clattering
to the ravine.
She slips on illusions
melting and dripping
like tiny prisms
in need of a light.
But on the sixth day
her true match is struck
and she finally sees:
nothing in heaven is moot.
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(c) 1995, 2012 Betty Hayes Albright
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