La Baume

Kirsten Steen
1 min readAug 22, 2019
La Baume in Provence (Photo by author)

The veil lifts and I am wakened

by an opening in a rock wall

enticed by centuries of buried prayers

reaching, shimmering hope profuse in

the backroads of the brambled valley

the scent of grass and lichened stones.

Petals slip in my open window

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Kirsten Steen

Writer, Traveler, For-fun Photographer, Blogger (mostly on Paris). Shorts published in Gemini Magazine & Cascadia Rising Review. www.writeonthyme.blogspot.com