Catherine Stavrakas
Here is the place
where rows of pines
slip gracefully
to the lake’s edge
like blue-gowned ladies
whispering.
Here the song
has lost its voice
and the spirits
must sing inwardly.
Here fibers of cloud
dissolve in the air
and well-fed children
wander as if lost,
perhaps forgotton.
Where the Ossipee
is flooded,
and the parents, like
Midsummer sleepers
Come
To forget who they once were.
Catherine Stavrakas is a public school psychologist and a private reading tutor living north of Boston. She spent twenty years in New Hampshire, including both the Sunapee region and later, Londonderry. Recently, Catherine won first place in the North Shore Poets’ Forum annual contest for “A Poem for Hilda.”
Christine Polito is a sculptor, painter, song-writer, poet, and Reiki Practitioner. She lives in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire where she relishes the quiet, the darkness of night and blanket of stars, the wildlife, and the sacred space of solitude.
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