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Street Crossing
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A woman, bundled tight against the cold,
holds the hands of two children holding hands
with three or four more.
She starts across the street and I watch them
in my rearview mirror:
the sliding pull of a dark slinky as she moves first,
the children moving into action seconds later.
And suddenly she is last.
Her brood has sprung forward – hopping, running,
lurching across the trolley tracks.
Their motion catches me – the physicality of swinging movement,
from protected waiting
to glittering surging flow of Forward;
anchored by mittened hands.
Posted by tinaburkholder on December 13, 2013
https://tinaburkholder.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/344/