Serenity

© Mary Saracino


Twilight sky
reflected mirror-like
in the calm,
birch-lined pond.

A flock of young mallards,
heads barely green,
noisily peck,
beaks picking at the corn
and pellets
strewn in the grass.

And you,
on the patio,
beside the spindly
mountain ash, heavy with berries,
watering the
red and white petunias.


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"Serenity" was previously published in Ariston, The College of St. Catherine Literary Magazine, (Fall 1975).

Mary Saracino is a novelist, memoir writer, and poet. Her most recent novel, Heretics: A Love Story (2014) was published by Pearlsong Press. Her novel, The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press 2006) was named a 2007 Lambda Literary Awards finalist in the Spirituality category. She co-edited (with Mary Beth Moser) She Is Everywhere! Volume 3: An anthology of writings in womanist/feminist spirituality (iUniverse 2012), which earned the 2013 Enheduanna Award for Excellence in Women-Centered Literature from Sofia University. For more information about Mary, visit www.marysaracino.com and http://www.pearlsong.com/mary_saracino.htm