Shimmering Embrace

 

For a brief 

and holy second,

our entire restless town

is being held

in a gentle, 

shimmering embrace!

Cupped hands, offering
Whose are they
Painted on the school wall,
holding morning light?
The teacher arrives

at the classroom door
softly unlocking the day.

Cloudia Charters

Gecko Without a Tail

He slipped the grip of danger—
left his tail behind, 

twitching like a tiny decoy, and 
Survived to skitter up the leaf.

He's feeling oddly clumsy,
proud yet mortified 

Alive!—what a triumph.
But oh, the wounded vanity! 

He's really not himself.

How naked he feels,
waiting for it
to grow back.

Pixie

In her gaze, 

the world grows still,

A shimmer born 

of moonlit will.

She loves as stars love—

soft, aloof,

Yet curls at dusk 

beneath my roof.

Cloudia Charters

ꯡꯡꯡꯡꯡꯡꯡꯡ

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

𐎄𐎜𐎜𐎜

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