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Autumn Leaves

volume 4 number 6

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Skiing

by Nick Flores

You stand at the top of a mountain
Waiting to get there
Sparkling diamonds shimmer in the light
Of a sapphire blue sky,
As if waiting for something,
As I plummet toward the ground,
The diamonds swoosh up
like sand in a swirling wave
my breath is like the icy wind rushing out of a cove,
as if held captive for years,
movement and thought seemingly suspended in time
as I reach the icy bottom

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