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Trick?
A li’l drip?
Slightly deeper trick—
Double trick, trickle, trick.
Trickle drip trickle trickle.
It trickles, then gurgles,
Rushes in and flows.
Sinks the dry parched earth,
Regando, moisture creeps.
Doubles over, increasing,
Fills quick, deeper, deep.
Till I can’t bear,
Strip to bikini,
And lunge on in.
Freezing yet gives me warmth..
Cold to body, heat to mind.
Surrounded in the navy clear.
Only light, the moon.
Under the water, I can see it above.
Its wounds and gashes deep.
Glimmering at me.
Safe under here,
only up for air,
those cares shot out
when skin hit, plunged,
enrathed, whirling,
safe under the ripples

Bonnie Merson, age 18
Pueblo West, Colorado
Centennial High School (Pueblo)
Teacher: Dianne Brooks