TO A CALMER PLACE by Lorraine Caputo

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TO A CALMER PLACE

I often wonder how I got here

where fierce winds batter

my life, memories mounding

like sands duning, burying 

my bare feet, duning,

burying my ankles, my shins …

 

imprisoning me

trapping me

immobilized

paralyzed

 

I must break free …

first wiggle my toes,

flexing my muscles

to fracture those dunes,

those mounds, the sands

slowly cascading, falling away

 

until I am free – 

walk away,

leave those memories,

escape the winds – 

 

journey to a calmer place ….

© Lorraine Caputo

Lorraine Caputo

Poet-translator Lorraine Caputo’s works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 23 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (Dancing Girl Press, 2023). She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. She journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.

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