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    Posted at 11:30 am by writergherlone, on August 14, 2018

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    THE WILD

    by Kristy Gherlone

     

    Into a wild forest ragged and sharp,

    A tormented mind with thoughts so unsweet.

    Making her way to ascend the escarp,

    To hasten a day a future won’t meet.

    The air sweetened by raspberries and pine,

    Past crystal waters raging swiftly rushed,

    A small child traveled, unseen, not a sign,

    On that mountain, followed quietly hushed.

    Aloft, head laid stones, greened softly of moss,

    Ending a life of unbearable loss.

    And sun, beginning to set on the wild,

    Only then did she happen to see her poor child.

    The waning view of fir waves and lake,

    Morning will find neither one to awake.

     

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    Author: writergherlone

    Kristy Gherlone is the New Hampshire author of novels, The History Lottery, Twelve Urns, and Innate Tendencies. You can also find some of her short stories in Squawk Back 167, Bedlam Magazine's Loud Zoo #9, Every Writers Resource, and in Wild Women's Medicine Circle Journal. Kristy grew up in northern Maine, attended the University of Maine in Orono, worked for Baxter State Park, and as an Early Interventionist for children with autism. Currently, she is a full-time writer, mother, grandmother, and duck mother of Miss Sassafras.
    Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments | Tagged childloss, grief, loss, mountains, nature, parenting, poetry, sonnet, suffering, wilderness |

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