"Women on Retreat"

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WOMEN ON RETREAT

Three women

meet at a lodge

in the Pocono Mountains

They are strangers—

but that soon changes

One, freshly wounded

two, a decade older

had been healed

years before

of the same sorrow

The two

instinctively soothe

the younger sister

with the balm

of compassion

listen

speak soft words

of experience

touch

At apricot sunset

they walk a wooded path

along the edge

of Tamiment Lake

Coming upon

a crude table

and benches

they stop, sit

join hands

and beseech God

as a million tree frogs

chirp crickety crescendos

from shadows

of tall leafy boughs

and deer graze

in their midst

As twilight wanes

they arise to go

then keep

one another

from stumbling

along the rocky path

Maude Carolan

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