Joelle-- How beautiful and touching. Thank you! --BJ
On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 09:54 PM, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:
The Butterfly Effect
They say the flip of a butterfly wing
in Peking can change the weather
in New York. I don't know
about New York City,
but your kiss, light on my lips
as a butterfly wing,
is stirring the weather in me.
In the heavy silence before rain
something opens
a crack between long-closed shutters.
Without a sound, something moves in the dark.
If I jump up now I can slam the shutter,
close out the storm, but I sit,
rain and tears on my face, holding
all the sweet chaos of the night.
Joelle Lyons Everett
from Strange and Wonderful Things, c 2000.
BJ Peters
[email protected]
602.279.4805
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you
come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people
who have come alive."
--Harold Thurman Whitman, Philosopher and Theologian
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