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Monday's Poem



Photo: Phil Walmsley

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, in print; also A Summer Father, poetry, published by Frontenac House of Calgary.




© 2008 Joanna M. Weston

Like Childhood

did I measure
a swallow's feathers in flight?
catch the wind before it bent
a cherry bough?

the scent of lavender
          in my hand
the permanence of a ripple
          in the stream
I would like
          to go back …
to see and touch
          again