Girl Carrying a Basket Like sea lavender, beach pea, bayberry, like the eastern aster, pitch pine, sea holly, creeping buttercup, wild beach rose, she thrives along a rugged salt-sprayed coast, shifting as dunes shift in off-shore winds. Her arms, her legs, her deep core up to the enduring task, carrying the day’s weight in a basket never emptied. Danger Born to this place they know to time the pace of the incoming tide, stay sure-footed on slippery table rocks. The moon-pull on their bodies, the horizon clouded with unyielding expectations- therein the danger lies. Mending the Nets Calloused fingers find sea-worn holes, thread the shuttle, loop and tie. Not quite bowed, they buoy each other entwined in anonymous labour against an anonymous sky. Autumn She knows there’s not another Spring or Summer. Winter waits. She hitches up her skirt, faces the trail with eager ease, blazes, a leaf catching fire in the season given- with ardor, without regret. Mary Alice Williams Mary Alice Williams lives and writes in Grand Rapids, Mi, quite near America’s Third Coast. She’s originally from Providence RI, quite near America’s First (East) Coast. Having spent much of her life community organizing she is now, as an octogenarian, focusing on honing her voice and skills as a poet. She has recently been published in several on- line journals and has a poem in the forthcoming print anthology, Sunflowers, from River Paw Press.
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