Carol Toba June 2025 – Voices of the Valley

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Certainty— Uncertainty

Drought succumbed to storms and floods

retreating, repeating

Stopped by blinding rain and hail

I waited, flashers blinking

The next day the forest smelled like jasmine

blooming mountain laurel cascaded down

like thick  hair over a breast, warming sun streaked

between trees on glistening rocks;

bad becoming good , balancing, falling, changing

Blue, violet, purple, turquoise  green gold, vibrant

or misty vista’s

The mountains change and remain

weather changes, we change,

and are gone.

Carol Toba

June 2025