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Canal water

February 7, 2015
By Pat_543 SILVER, Chicago, Illinois
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I want to dip my hand
In the canals of Amsterdam
To see the ripples I create float
Across the nigh cooled
molten silver like water.
To feel the water’s current run through
The spaces of my fingers.
I need my mind to fall in that water
that’s like lukewarm mercury  
so that it may be healed.

© Christina L., Great Falls, VA

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Mckay ELITE said...
on Mar. 3 2015 at 9:59 pm
Mckay ELITE, Somewhere, Virginia
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I enjoyed the simplicity of your poem. Yet underneath that simplicity is an emotional need for nature to heal the human void that nothing else can fulfill.