Starfresh

by Flo Fleury

Contest Winner

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I wander down a path

with little girl dreams

clutched in one hand

(startling prints in the black snow—

run, hide!

their wisdom

is swallowed in

the whiteness you left behind)

and the makings

of a woman

tucked in my

Pocket

(chains of the elemental

sparkle-gleam down upon

this who wanders across your pearls)

the mind of me

stutters up the stairs

sometimes choking on a

tear of the past

sometimes stroking

a gem of the Now

and Now-to-come

but always with

my God

sealed into the heart

within me

the new and the old

mingle their

sorrows and sadnesses

with

the gentle goldens

of the life

my God has given me:

that He and I

shall conquer—

together. …

Photo by Lori L. Heule, Minneapolis, Minnesota (contest winners)