Turtle Crossing
by Stacey Longo Graham
Vibrations scare me.
You’re slower than molasses.
Lawnmower must yield.
Just let me help you.
I’m going to wait in here.
There, all better now.
Sun is setting soon.
Green stalks lie scattered in lawn.
I’ll look one more time.
Did you make it home?
You’re faster than you let on.
Turtles like my yard.
About the Poet
Stacey Longo Graham is an inspirational author using faith, wit, empathy, laughter, tears, and mistakes to embrace life’s grittiness and nature’s splendor. After years in child welfare law, instead of anticipating retirement with her husband, she is now a mom to a wonderful child she never expected.
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Photo: Eastern box turtle in Southern Illinois by Aaron Lucas, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
