ECHO

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By Debra Wendt

A place prepared

exceeding imagination

What colors were mixed?

What forms took shape

in that creating-mind?

Humankind ascribes a standard born

of God or man’s intention.

My mother smiled.

In the throes of restless aging

a mind spent

One word the life’s foundation

and in that word my certainty.

First published in The Storyteller, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2013.