Poetry

Giving Way

By KYRA FREEBURG | Published: July 17, 2011

What is the alchemy of spilling sunlight

giving way to inky night shadows,

or a slender fringed wing extending

out and over the blood-tree roots

of the cracked cement path?

Ah the paradox of wild child wonder,

a sage’s soul, tumbling, rumbling

on hula-hoop wheels and spit fire friction.

She reaches across our hearts

to open

our too long shut window

with thoughtful kindness and grace.