Finding Heart
Summer break explodes as students leap down stairs of neighborhood school buildings all giggles and wiggles except one. One who saunters instead of leaps whose eyes are not impassioned by sidewalk hopscotch or swimming lessons or lazy warm evenings catching lightning bugs whose curved shoulders carry a sadness of stolen dreams stopping mid stride near the giving hickory nut tree sitting at its roots, back pressed against warming bark, head tilted back, vacantly staring upward through shimmering leaves. Resting. Waiting. Watching. Summer sun abruptly teams with storm clouds, showers, erupting rainbows. Simultaneous phenomenon uniquely savored while still gazing upward light begins to replace cloudy eyes, followed by a slight hint of grin.

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