Small Stones: The Happening

Photo by Linda G Hatton

Mother and son
seeking island getaway,
enter lobby to find
marbled eyes of daughter,
attempting family-free
lunch date, asking with black,
warped winks, did you
really just walk in here?
Instead of hurried departure, we
wave to the backs of her
pack, and request opposable
seating, winding up
with a lunch-date
photo
of sliced limes flaunting
itself
at our glasses
of plain
water


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Small Stones: Layered

Photo by Linda G Hatton

Voices shiver through dusty

air, announcing two 

jackets are too few

for twenty-eight degrees

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Written for Writing Our Way Home's January writing challenge, Small Stones.

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Small Stones: Land of Nod

This "Small Stone" poem is written for the challenge at Writing Our Way Home. 

Photo by Linda G Hatton

Eyelids curled under

like a sleeping

bear, perceive hibernating

mountains as a blustery mass

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