into a second life
   growing to emerge again
         an embryo floats

closer to the earth
   a person can see clearly
         leaning on a cane

with a broken wing
   leaving feathers behind her
         an eagle soaring

a surfer watches
   riding the curl of a wave
         a breaching whale

zooms toward the sun
   a skier changes her course
         racing down the curve

Copyright © 2011 Dianne Klammer

Diane Klammer, is a wife, mother, naturalist and retired Counseling Psychologist, who started writing seriously about five years ago. Her poetry has been published in Tattoo Highway, Pirene’s Fountain, Heavybear, Midwifery Today, Rattle and elsewhere. Her Fiction is in Fast Forward Mix Tape Edition. Diane’s first book, “Shooting The Moon”, was published by Monkey Puzzle Press in October of 2009.

“I still feel like a new writer, constantly editing, changing and trying to write one word at a time. We must learn not to wallow in the nadir of self criticism or in the zenith of conceit concerning our work, but remain on the level horizon where we can be at our best.”

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