An Old Song


river runs under wind
takes rock to the sea

wind blows over river
lifts foam from the wave
silt moves through water
under my hand to the sea I cross the river
against the wind

to the place where hands meet
and lips touch underwater

~ Joanna M. Weston

Joanna M. Weston M.A. Has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty years. Has two middle-readers, ‘The Willow Tree Girl’ and ‘Those Blue Shoes’; also ‘A Summer Father’, poetry, published by Frontenac House of Calgary, all in print.

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