Butterfly effect

[BJ Peters]

Joelle-- How beautiful and touching. Thank you! --BJ
On Monday, March 22, 2004, at 09:54 PM, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:

> The Butterfly Effect
>
> They say the flip of a butterfly wing
> in Peking can change the weather
> in New York.  I don't know
> about New York City,
> but your kiss, light on my lips
> as a butterfly wing,
> is stirring the weather in me.
>
> In the heavy silence before rain
> something opens
> a crack between long-closed shutters.
> Without a sound, something moves in the dark.
>
> If I jump up now I can slam the shutter,
> close out the storm, but I sit,
> rain and tears on my face, holding
> all the sweet chaos of the night.
>
> Joelle Lyons Everett
> from Strange and Wonderful Things, c 2000.
>
BJ Peters
bjp1 at cox.net
602.279.4805

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you 
come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people 
who have come alive."
   --Harold Thurman Whitman, Philosopher and Theologian

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