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Mount St. Helens Reflects<br />
4<br />
Sandra L. Shea, Ph.D.<br />
Family <strong>Medicine</strong> 3rd place, poetry<br />
“Tomorrow creeps in this petty pace,” Shakespeare said.<br />
Means nothing to me.<br />
I breathed quietly for an eon.<br />
Napped for an epoch or two.<br />
Snored through the dinosaurs’ period.<br />
Whose tomorrow should we use?<br />
You weren’t here when I last rose a thousand meters.<br />
Your Sequoias’ parents were seedlings when I coughed a few times.<br />
By your clock, a score and a few past I gave back a thousand feet.<br />
It matters not.<br />
The rock is my clay, the magma my blood.<br />
I sigh steam dusted with ash as I muse on my choices.<br />
The snow melts from my lava dome.<br />
Tickles.<br />
Tomorrow, yours or mine,<br />
I’ll grow again.<br />
Or I’ll shrink.<br />
Or I’ll sleep.<br />
Watch me.<br />
As long as you can.<br />
I’ll be here.<br />
SCOPE <strong>2006</strong><br />
Reflections From the Sky<br />
Janice Vandeveer 3.5”x5” photograph<br />
MSII<br />
SCOPE <strong>2006</strong> 5
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