mostly the same.
Ezra has
patches of dust
on his body,
like a quilt of
garden plots.
One from
every place
he’s been since
I last saw him.
I am wearing
a cloak of raindrops.
One from
every bit of sky
I’ve thirsted under.
We look
each other
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up and down
slowly.
Carefully.
Saying nothing
and everything
all at once.
His eyes are
soft.
Apologetic.
Understanding.
Mine are
steady but
kind.
I am water
and
he is earth.
But
somewhere
in between
that look
is
a meeting
of the
two.
In this place,
there’s a
shoreline
we both
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can accept.
Before
turning
and
walking
our
separate
ways.
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Coach asks me
where I see myself
in five years.
Five years.
“Here, I guess.”
“No son,
where do you want
to be?”
“Here, I guess.”
“Jack,
you need to get
your eyes on the prize.”
The prize.
What is
the prize?
Anything
I’d give anything
to be able
to put on
invisible clothes
like that wizard kid
in that book.
Walk around
and no one
would look
at me.
No one
would pat me
on the shoulder
and ask me
No one
would ask me
how my mother
is holding up.
I could do
anything
and no one
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About the Author
Meg Specksgoor is a poet and river-rafting guide from Western New York, currently living in northern New Mexico. She graduated from Houghton College with a Bachelor of the Arts in English and writing with minors in art and intercultural studies. She likes campfires, breakfast, adventuring, and people who tell her interesting stories in combination with any of those activities.
Hannah works as the only female river-rafting guide in her closed-minded small town. Labeled a tomboy, she often struggles to reconcile the way she fits into normal gender stereotypes.
Then, Hannah meets Ezra, who blurs the lines between woman and man. They begin an exciting new relationship, but soon Ezra starts pushing Hannah’s limits and her definition of love.
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