River of Stones Submission

The January River of Stones project is soliciting pieces for inclusion in a book they are publishing.  I know.  How cool.  So, here are the ones that I sent for consideration regurgitated for you.  Thanks to everyone for their feedback.  Special thanks to the ladies in my small group at WWfaC.  You guys are da bomb!

Small Stone #1

The skin 

remembers 

long after the mind 

forgets.

Small Stone #3

My childhood 

was carefully 

bordered in 

yellow angles

with a

high gloss

shine.

Small Stone #5

Lake ice,

window of the 

water house below.

Hold a piece up 

in front of the sun

it becomes my window too.

Small Stone #17

Small sliding steps

tentative

listening for any 

groan or creak 

that means 

breaking through.

Small Stone #18

Like the ivory 

white dominoes 

of my childhood

they fall

singly

or

in

groups

And I wonder when all 

my fears are toppled,

what will remain?

Small Stone #28

The dove startled 

from its slumber

in the pine tree

by the light

flies blindly

into the window

again and again.

Small Stone #31

There is an art

to true listening

that makes me

feel lovingly held.