Small Girl Woman

Ravaged from a day in the ring

the small girl woman

Untied her gloves

and looked around

She spoke out loud to herself

“That this would be my home

I did not dream of how a dream

came true

Fasten me to the edge of a

mysterious ledge

Let not my life be dredged

to the end and back again

Yet if it is to be so

then let me grow

Into the wind

with Eagle and Hummingbird

Let me turn a frown

upside down

And land on a mountain pass

in the snow”

She laughed and carried on