Little Girls Ponder Beauty Unspeakable

By Nancee Cline

Starborne: The Journal of Autocosmology, Issue 1, can be read in full at the above link. Each individual contribution will be shared here as well, one every week.

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Little Girls Ponder Beauty Unspeakable

By Nancee Cline

The child Saint Teresa of Avila,
twirled to the word forever,
around, around, around.

For me, it was infinity,
a word that revealed itself
at the funeral of a great-grandmother.

My mother took me outside—a sobbing little girl.
She mistakenly believed 
I was crying for the dead.

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Nancee Cline is a lifetime lover of the written word. She holds a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities, as well as two certificates in Theological Education. She has tutored and taught every age group from Montessori pre-school through community college adults. After retirement she gave up writing essays and book reviews to write poetry, which she realized with surprise, was better than religion.