Wind and wave, storm and claw
drag and scatter and break
the beach.
The beach breathes back.
Dissolved, resolved, relieved it breathes
the constant easy pattern of
its self.
February 1, 2023
Photo by Clay Leconey on Unsplash
Wind and wave, storm and claw
drag and scatter and break
the beach.
The beach breathes back.
Dissolved, resolved, relieved it breathes
the constant easy pattern of
its self.
February 2023
A Latvian survivor of World War II, Gundega Korsts met English as a child and Friends worship as a young mother. Retirement is graced with art and nature, friendship and strangers, love and caring, sorrow, and respect. Each day she asks, “Am I walking in the Light?” Silence sustains her.
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