the sun has scorched your edges from inside
in that fire you are the word beautiful
once green new life yellows reds and soon browns
you wave at me as your bold dance begins
in this ballet you twirl amid others
tendu against image that holds you high
embryonic movement in the moment
sending you into the old broken world
gone from roots and predictability
onto a bright stage of higher mountains
never downwards to thoughts that once bore you
gloriously towards the clouds ascending
instinctively your spirit stopping here
today is why the very green was born
Rita S. Spalding has had poems published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Her first book, Abstract Ribbons, was published in 1992. A second book, The Eighth, is currently at a publisher. She has received awards for poetry from Jefferson Community and Technical College, Elizabethtown Community College, National Library of Poetry, Kentucky Monthly Magazine and the Kentucky State Poetry Society. In 2024 she was a presenter at the Kentucky Writers Celebration in Danville and Historic Penn’s General Store, the Last Insomniacathon and she gives poetry readings regionally on a regular basis.
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