Meadow - A Poem of Remembrance

Lauri Kay Burke
Mar 16, 2021

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Running the Meadow — painting by Lauri Burke

Second cousins
Julie and Terri,
one blonde and merry
one darkly queenly.

I saw them just once
on a long summer day
in riverine Minnesota.

We ran in a meadow together,
part of it,
three little animals
drunk on blossom,
intoxicated with love.

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