✨ Ajijic
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Ajijic
Hand-made
along the shoreline
from shells of antiquity.
Carries the Sierras
on her back,
a book of stories
opened in the slick
slides of mud as the rain
falls like a voice.
The trees raise their arms,
red and gold and green,
and lay their shadows down.
—Rick Maxson
Ajijic is a region in Mexico, pronouced Ah-he-heek. Meaning “place of water”
“Ajijic” used by permission of the poet. Photo by Paulina Vasquez, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.
Rick does it again. Beautiful craftsmanship.
"the rain
falls like a voice."
and
"The trees raise their arms,
[...]
and lay their shadows down."
Love all this.
"Carries the Sierras
on her back,
a book of stories"