Today’s Short #Poem 130

If it was hot today
I’d want to lie
on my side in a brook
and let the flowing water cleanse
shoulder to toes
dissolve the accumulated
send some nutrients
to the smaller life-forms
downstream

I’d be stronger because lighter
not 17 again and kicking down
doors, singing other folk’s songs
but ready to start anew
maybe more cautious this time
maybe not

Ashley Bovan

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