Lithic Love Song
angular flake grasped in sunlight
stained windowpane
shimmered holy
thirteen thousand years connect
golden
fallen leaves
crisp November
prayer in glint
soil and time weathered rind
shared whispers
ancient struggle
current hope
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flake held above me
sunlight pours
through thinned stone
dirt and rain
taken toll
on us
on weathering amber chalcedony
my eyes greet his tease
write poetry
about history
about our weathering
our connection
between thirteen thousand years
and present
I warble disgraced calligraphy
my sigh awe in dirt
awe in strikes
millennia deep
debitage love song
the screen catches
my sunlight marvel
Kim Malinowski is a lover of words. Her collection Home was published by Kelsay Books. Her verse novel Phantom Reflection was published by Silver Bow Press. Buffy’s House of Mirrors was published by Q, an imprint of Querencia Press. Reverberations was published by Kelsay Books. Her chapbook Death: A Love Story was published by Flutter Press. She writes because the alternative is unthinkable.
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