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by RD Larson I follow her. I am talking; she doesn't listen. She tells me she is busy; I tell her I have been hurt. She looks, but I can see in her eyes, that Such little blood is unimportant, I do know that. I ask her if I can help; she shakes her head. "No, Baby, it is better if I do this myself." I sit in a chair, turning face cards down; she is absent, if Present. I watch her from beneath my eyelashes; she is more Beautiful Than any movie star because she is so alive. Turning here, bending and stretching, she is Graceful and quick, Not a wasted movement. I watch her began to knead the bread. It speaks of creation to me. I am in awe as the dough becomes smoother, firmer. And, somehow, softer. I turn over a Jack of Hearts As he walks through the door. He is taller than I; older and more loved in everyway. No wonder. He is perfection, Born of her dream and in her image. I watch in absolute silence As, bread forgotten, she gathers him into her mother-warmth. The bread loses its shape; It falls over on its own self. I see it is hardly bread-to-be now, that Mother has her son. The Jack of Hearts has a drop of my blood curling on it. The terror always there, Remains forever. Born and raised in Humboldt County, RD Larson keeps close ties with the area. Although, living in the Gold Country now and spending part of the year at Puget Sound in Washington, Larson writes every day. She readily admits she is full of words rushing to get out. A collection of short stories about her childhood as a Warrior Woman in the Pacific Northwest, is available on her personal website: RD Larson. And a new story, "The Egyptian Official" will be up June 10 at Copperfield Review . Click Currently an article on historical fiction is up to read and a story called "Up From Gouge Eye to Rough and Ready" is available in the archives. Larson has been published online in deeplyshallow.com, Rear View Mirror, Sidewalks End, envy/judas.com, lovewords-ezine, and copperfieldreview. For more information or to be added to her mailings just email llarson419@aol.com | |||||||
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