I Am Water Page 8

  mostly the same.

  Ezra has

  patches of dust

  on his body,

  like a quilt of

  garden plots.

  One from

  every place

  he’s been since

  I last saw him.

  I am wearing

  a cloak of raindrops.

  One from

  every bit of sky

  I’ve thirsted under.

  We look

  each other

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  up and down

  slowly.

  Carefully.

  Saying nothing

  and everything

  all at once.

  His eyes are

  soft.

  Apologetic.

  Understanding.

  Mine are

  steady but

  kind.

  Forgiving.

  I am water

  and

  he is earth.

  But

  somewhere

  in between

  that look

  is

  a meeting

  of the

  two.

  In this place,

  there’s a

  shoreline

  we both

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  can accept.

  Before

  turning

  and

  walking

  our

  separate

  ways.

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  Eyes on the Prize Today at practice,

  Coach asks me

  where I see myself

  in five years.

  Five years.

  “Here, I guess.”

  “No son,

  where do you want

  to be?”

  “Here, I guess.”

  “Jack,

  you need to get

  your eyes on the prize.”

  The prize.

  What is

  the prize?

  Anything

  I’d give anything

  to be able

  to put on

  invisible clothes

  like that wizard kid

  in that book.

  Walk around

  and no one

  would look

  at me.

  No one

  would pat me

  on the shoulder

  and ask me

  about the game.

  No one

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  how my mother

  is holding up.

  I could do

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  and no one

  would say anything

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  About the Author

  Meg Specksgoor is a poet and river-rafting guide from Western New York, currently living in northern New Mexico. She graduated from Houghton College with a Bachelor of the Arts in English and writing with minors in art and intercultural studies. She likes campfires, breakfast, adventuring, and people who tell her interesting stories in combination with any of those activities.

  Hannah works as the only female river-rafting guide in her closed-minded small town. Labeled a tomboy, she often struggles to reconcile the way she fits into normal gender stereotypes.

  Then, Hannah meets Ezra, who blurs the lines between woman and man. They begin an exciting new relationship, but soon Ezra starts pushing Hannah’s limits and her definition of love.

  ISBN: 9781538382790

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