Selected Work

        by Linda Sonna












        Delphinium Dancing


        a shake of moussed mane
        and the bright blue baubles
        dangling from her ears
        dip bob jingle.
        "aren't they cute? cute?"
        her orange lips grin the answer

        as far off humans gouge the earth
        digging melting smelting
        molding metal

        weighing mixing pressing
        stamping plastic
        to earn make ship sell buy
        burying blue of sky
        shimmer of sea
        twinkle of light
        for baubles that dangle briefly

        that dangle like -
        there! in the meadow!
        delphinium dancing in wind.


        Linda Sonna is the author of six books, a free-lance writer, and poet. She has won awards for her poetry and short fiction. She lives and writes in Taos, NM. May, 2004.


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