Honorable Mention
Painting & Watercolor
Girl in Pink
Bill Wetherill
A*LONE*LY
Sharon S. Mills
To be a*lone is to play your music loudly or softly to please you,
to read in the family room or dance in the living room or sleep on the couch, at noon,
to clean or not to clean
to launder or to do homework or to exercise, or not.
to revel in the possibilities of hour, day or week
To be lone*ly is to turn on any talk show to hear a human voice,
to sigh in the family room or cry in the living room or sleep from boredom, at noon,
to scream or not to scream,
to be crushed under the weight of things only I cannot do.
to survey all there is to be done and conclude there’s no use.
To be a*lone is to exult in the exuberant monsoon rain storm,
to be delighted that the phone does not ring and there is no raucous rap on the door,
to be not Netted,
to be able to think a thought through from beginning to end.
to find time to luxuriate in being you.
To be lone*ly is to hunker down with headphones to avoid summer storm,
to wish for the call of even a salesman or that a Witness would come
to the house
to check for E-mail,
to run from your thoughts as if from a speeding freight train.
to be by yourself and not like the company.
A*lone is a choice. Lone*ly is endurance.
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