If you take the edits,
take the critiques,
to better bloom in season
and embrace the wind
that robs you of your seed,
there will be a moment
after decades of shaping,
of pruning,
when you reflect on vanished roots,
nod to the wildflowers,
and wither.
Unedited
- By Katharine Benelli Coggeshall
Katharine Benelli Coggeshall lives in the mountains of New Mexico. Although her background is in science, Katharine has always been drawn to writing. She is now a technical writer-editor for a national laboratory. Katharine has been published by Blue Mountain Arts, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Constant Content, Prolific Press, Inklings Publishing, Focus on the Family, Rue Scribe, and authors a column in the Los Alamos Daily Post Newspaper.