Openings

I’ve been writing poems for a while but rarely shared them. I wanted a quiet place to begin doing that. Starting poems without an audience was always easy. Finishing them was hard because it implied I might actually show them to someone. I can count my truly finished poems on one hand and I will probably post them here in time. But I wanted my first post to be alive, something I wrote for us here and now.

March stones 

The last time it hailed 
I knew I was leaving. My 
translucent skin cried out,
pockmarked all over. Today
I crouch on the ridge and
shriek, the swift and pebbled winds
shoving at my back. But I hunker 
low, laughing, resilient. On a parallel 
planet it is raining sapphires. 
There is still so much
to love.

Thank you for reading and keeping me writing. Sending love,

Charlie

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