Go With the Flow
A poem about discovering self-reliance
Just because you appear unscathed, does that mean you were untouched? Maybe not physically, but the internal scars run deep. Like a river, they cut a path chosen only for ease of travel. No resistance; shaping stones. The flow is natural. Self-serving.
Now flows a river of slippery stones that fell from your spine. They’re tricky stepping stones which offer guarded crossing; unreliable. I’ll try to use them anyway to get from this dirty bank to the other, lighter side. I’ll use my own arms to balance, and the sunlight to guide me. Okay. I will start at your tributary to reach my delta. Do you feel me traveling over your weak spine?
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KJ Aartila
A writer of words in northern WI with a small family and a large menagerie.
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Creator Dane BH is one of our Vocal stalwarts. We’re so grateful to all of your in our Vocal community, and so thrilled by your achievements. This is the third time Dane has won one of our challenges, and she appears too on our Vocal podcast, Write Here, Write Now — take a listen if you haven’t already. But she’s not our winner because we know her: the subtlety and simplicity of we watched the world go dark. together. is what made it our winner of the In Eclipse challenge, with the grace and ease of its lines and observation. As it happens it also expresses the community spirit that means so much to us.
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