Issue 12
Edge
Dawn Goldsmith
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Edge of Friendship
Seven years I wandered in this wilderness, not recognizing faces,
rarely seeing smiles, keeping my head down and getting through each day.
But yesterday, I heard a child cry.
Her distress pierced my mother's heart and I followed the sound.
Across my yard, across the grain fields, I stepped into another person's space.
The child stood safe within a hug. Her grandmother comforted her and
turned at my introduction.
She beamed as if she had been waiting all these years, just as I had,
to say, "Hi, I'm your neighbor."
~Dawn Goldsmith
Dawn Goldsmith has essays and articles published in Christian Science Monitor, Skirt! Magazine and other publications. She reviews books for Publisher's Weekly and Crescent Blues E'magazine. Her
essay Life with Hope appears in the anthology Chocolate for a Woman's Courage.
© 2003 by Dawn Goldsmith. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2003 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.