Heeding the Call

Her note--lingering in an unresolved chord,

surprising her with minor keys and overtones

while seeking melody--is becoming a Moment.

Anxiety beckons from the getaway car,
     but she chooses the Moment not
           the pattern of habit, tradition and fear.

She faces danger,  gives herself to the Moment,

                                            embraces it and finds the moment holds her too.

                                      Her eye itch could be tears of joy,
                                                  pride, discovery, and gratitude.

                                                             Where they splotch her clothes, laurels grow.

                                 She thinks of playing forgotten games:
                             jump rope, jacks, giant steps, checkers
                        twenty questions, blind man's bluff
                   hop scotch, high water - low water
               laughter and laughter and laughter
        because her note holds her like a fast car on a roller coaster,

               tea cup on the tilt-a-whirl,

                    a pocket in an overcoat.

                                        Strapped into the mystery,

                 she is committed

                      to seeing it through

                      even though she

                                             cannot check a schedule or

                     ask how the Moment ends

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