Issue 12
Edge
J. Barbara Alvord
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Kylie Splashes
I watch you shiny
slick and slithery
arching through the water
dolphin-like
soaking red trunks
slipping
down
your barely
five-year frame.
You stop head up
swaying with a wave
tiny fingers wiping watery lashes
giggling as you gulp for air.
"C'mon in Gramma," wet lips squeal.
"C'mon. It's fun!"
I laugh wince
feel the icy water
and the bubbles
and the sweet air in my lungs
even from my dry old canvas chair
waiting at the water's edge.
~J. Barbara Alvord
J. Barbara Alvord wrote a one-act stage play about her Czech grandmother,
Anna, which was produced in an old barn at Living History Farms, Des Moines,
Iowa. Her creative biography, Through Different Eyes, chronicling
Anna's brave immigrant journey, is near completion. Her poetry has appeared
in Lyrical Iowa, Retrozine and Byline magazine. Since her retirement
from the corporate world, the written word knits her waking hours together. Email.
© 2003 by J. Barbara Alvord. All Rights Reserved.
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