AWAY, FROM

October 08, 2024

 

away from the jangle

i step

out the back door

to see, to see

what the ocean

    has to say

 

my bicycle could breeze me to its banks

but, the truth is

just as much the fix is that self reliant prelude

forward progress through open space

my quiet cadence begins the humbling,

the curtain pulling back

 

and then,

then the big, huge blue

always so excited to see me!

surf swelling and fading

2 steps up, 1 step back

dissolving its issues, while creating some new

 

and up and up and up

the clouds, their sift

the boundless wonder above

and, i in between 

 

who could ask for a better greeting?

no task except to yield

yield and accept this gospel sung in two parts

nothing to do but extend it some moments

to find

its own way in

 

away from my quandaries i have wandered

and clutching my reset

i step

through the front door

the fix in

    for today

 

(AWAY, FROM by Susan Currie, as published in the fall 2024 edition of Still Point Arts Quarterly)

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