[Poem-a-Week] Returning to the World by Kimbrough Ernest

It’s time. Open windows 
open doors. Let weather 
in to the closed places. 
You will get visitors. 
They won’t stay forever. 
Carry yourself gently 
from room to room 
the way light teaches us. 
Say nothing of longing. 
Let the rain speak resilience. 
Let the sun celebrate the rain. 
There is still so much 
that hasn’t happened.

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Kimbrough Ernest is a retired elementary school teacher and poet living in Ventura.  She has been published in Askew, Solo Novo: Psalms of Cinder and Salt, To Give Life a Shape, Rare Feathers and other anthologies, yet she still has to do her own grocery shopping!

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