snippets bold, sharp, proud, an immense essence with tender spinnerets to pull me into a warm place on the couch near olive green pants and brie. sprinkled salt from a sincere sparkle and a birthday in january or maybe july. a glass platter with butterfly crackers and a homespun circle, a hug. smiles, scrawled sentences and poetic paragraphs of pleasant partition, snippets of a soaring origami staircase to a great barrier island, protected. concerned, shaken, then lifted – a conch shell and strewn mums. by: anonymous