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From The Roots
By Su Shafer
I need to let go of the uncertainty
That I am anything else but a dragon.
Just a little dragon
A little wood dragon
Hatched from a little crystal egg
As green as the nest of moss it was laid in
Carefully built in the cool leaf mould
Gathered in the crook of Granny Maple’s
Gnarled old roots.
There is a fire in my heart
But wood dragons are careful
Creatures of the trees
Where fire is seldom welcome.
Shy as a brown creeper,
Hiding in plain sight,
Few people see me
And the ones who do
Can hardly believe it.
Su Shafer is a creative crafter, fabricating bits of writing in poetry and short stories, and other bits into characters that appear in paintings or sit on various bookshelves and coffee tables. She lives in a cottage on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where the tea kettle is always whistling and the biscuits freshly baked. One never knows who might stop by to share a rainy afternoon. And all are welcome.
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