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Lorraine Schechter

image:'Just before the storm'
just before the storm
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Yesterday I sat with my old friend
The Healing Tree
her charcoal limbs a black grave
in a grove where thirty years ago
I heard a mantra, a prayer
that changed my life: a seed song
fruiting finally into soulfood, a life of spirit
not what I studied, nor what I expected
which is how life works, heading off
assertively in some direction
a chance encounter,
maybe a side path taken,
and what one thought was is no longer.

I'm waiting for directions.




Copyright © 1998 Lorraine Schechter.

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