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Broken Bits and Mending Tape

Sacred stones roll around on the floor of my car, carried in over years of scavenging. Pocketed. Parceled. Placed on dashboard or grave. Markers of present coloring past. The sun bathes the windshield just so and the secret messages written in mud or snow show themselves for the innocent blessing that they are. I walk into this side street café with my bruised heart in a purple and black satchel and am greeted by a circle of banjo players and one free seat against the window. Chairs like we inhabited in elementary school when things were still made of wood, grafted together at the corners with metal, corners rounded and smooth. We kept our notes in desks and lockers, wrote whispers of names we adored on the plain brown wrappers around our math books. Took broken bits and mending tape, carted cassette songs of guitar players who have since died or changed their names. Like mantras, directions to the river canyon where we could picture the rough rope as magical swing over the cold water. The perfect drop into the uncontrolled. The seconds of our happy eyes opening under water to witness the consecrated. To hear every thought in the perfect suspension. The rattle of the sacred. Pocket. Canyon.

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  1. Miriam SaganMarch 20, 2018 at 1:15 PM

    I love this--can I re-blog, with link, on Miriam's well?

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    1. Robyn HuntMarch 21, 2018 at 7:53 PM

      Dear Miriam,

      I would be delighted if you wished to re-blog. I'm honored, actually. And your asking is a gift tucked inside what has turned into a difficult week. Thank you. Send me the link; I'll keep an eye out!

      Warmly,
      Robyn

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  2. Miriam SaganMarch 21, 2018 at 9:10 PM

    It should go up tomorrow--will send link. Very touching piece.

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  3. angeleeMarch 22, 2018 at 6:57 PM

    Dear Robynthis is so beautifully done,love and light,angelee(India)

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    1. Robyn HuntMarch 28, 2018 at 7:55 AM

      Angelee, I so appreciate your words. Thank you.

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  4. Art GoodtimesMarch 25, 2018 at 3:01 PM

    sorrows transformed into sacred stones. bruised heart in a satchel. chairs of memory that set us straight. the swing of poetry over caught water...

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