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Morning Path (Thursday)

 

by Mary Schanuel

 

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Living incense, the grass
now flat and broken
releases its pungent green essence
to guide our way.
Crimson-tinged clouds
like staccato full notes
race their way to the sun
just now rising.
A murder of crows
rules a dead oak tree
and nearby a warbler sings
“I want...want, want, want”
longing, as I do,
for something unseen.

 
     
 

 

     
 

Mary Schanuel has been a writer since she could hold a pencil and has published non-fiction, entertainment reviews, poetry and short fiction since she was 19. Her works have appeared in such publications as Working Mother Magazine, Organic Gardening and the Los Angeles Daily News. Her poetry will be published in an upcoming anthology of poems by the Missouri Zen Writers Group. A member of the Woman to Woman - St. Louis community, Mary facilitates personal growth and healing workshops.

 
     

 

 

     
   
     

 

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