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February 14, 2023 · 9:08 am

Forever

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

Forever is not a word
In our universe,
nothing in it
stays the same.
One day our earth
will become pieces
in the cosmic pond.

We are not forever.
Your movement
in the early morning
through the quiet rooms
will one day drift away.

Forever is not a word
in our universe.
One day we too
will have to part.

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April 16, 2012 · 6:45 am

Flying

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

For Li Po

In the spring
I think about
water and flying,
clear water running
over moss-covered stones.

Poets are forever,
banished from
the village,
cut loose
in order
to wander
the desert,
to fly just barely above
the juniper and salt brush.

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