Somewhere,
Some Day
‘Just hold me,’
I wanted to say –
as though we loved.
Then, when I fell
over that damn rock,
you lifted me
into a hug.
I rested there.
You told me about
the red-winged hawk
you’d seen at dawn.
A time for us? A place?
Just then. Just there.
The feeling of home.
The parting.
A response to this month's Flash 55 PLUS! at 'imaginary garden with real toads', which asks for a piece in 55 words, including a reference to a line from a tear-jerker song. 'Somewhere' from West Side Story does it for me.
I love this, Rosemary. So evocative and with such economy. Thank you. Hmm, I might have a try with this form. I like tear-jerker songs....
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