smoothed

beneath the dapple blue

she lived 

daffodil pierced to sunshine 

copper freckled 

immortal

a penny at the bottom of a pool in June

spark

sparked

sparking

did I say immortal?

everlasting fullness 

dipped in the glimmer of Nebraska afternoons 

and

pony perfection 

on fortunes wheel she turns
worn
weary
waiting 

lucky in loves lonely opalescence 

pearled & tossed 

upon the river stones 

to 

inhabit the spirit of white birch trees in February