This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2000-07-11 16:23:53 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Throwing the First Stone

It was a find, a rare sharp shard of malachite he tucked it in the pockets of his shorts the boy who searched with him on the dirt path was holding up a treasure of his own, a large round pebble, glistening with quartz They played until the sun retreated behind minarets compared their stones decided when to hunt for rocks again Until two shrieking woman snatched them from their play each mother screaming curses, not the same in language but in cadence close enough that both soon understood a dirt path was a boundary a smile a ploy, a rock a missile a boy not just a boy

Copyright © July 2000 Rachel F. Spinoza


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