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Heart-shaped Rocks

Nature loves to break
down and remake edges
rounding granite faces
curving shores, scalloping
brittle sand and ice;
ledges bow to ocean urges
fold themselves over
in supplicant reposes
sculpt caves of soft mouths
to swallow the high seas.
Eyes blink in direct sunlight -
even your baby blues.
Nothing craves a straight line.
Even our gritty words
circle in the February air
and carve curlicues
around our feud.

 

--- Barbara Schweitzer

Sun Surf & Rocks
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About the author, Barbara Schweitzer:
Barbara Schweitzer has received numerous prizes for her poetry including RI State’s Merit Fellowship and the Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize. Her work appears in various literary and online journals and in the anthology Sundays at Sarah’s. Her manuscript 33 1/3 was a semi-finalist for the 2004 Bakeless Prize. She maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Providence, RI.

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