Journey Finalist
by JV Birch © 2017
family and friends long since gone.
I give the taxi man the address and add
don’t feel you have to hurry.
He takes the scenic route
through my old neck of the woods.
I point out the house I grew up in
where I went to school
the church I got married in
where I worked as a seamstress.
We drive for what seems like hours
with the sun streaming in.
When he drops me at the hospice
I ask how much I owe him.
He shakes his head
telling me not to worry.
I hadn’t noticed he’d turned off the meter
too busy enjoying the trip.
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JV Birch lives in Adelaide. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, journals and magazines across Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. She has two collections, Smashed glass at midnight and What the water & moon gave me, Ginninderra Press, and is working on her third. www.jvbirch.com
Read this and the 60+ poems in 'The Best of Kindness 2017' available on Amazon.com or from our publisher's CreateSpace e-store: https://www.createspace.com/7018282
Above image: Startled Flight by Helen Burke
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Are there small or large gestures of kindness? How do we decide? The poets in this 60-poem collection ask and try to answer. Join poets from 30 states & a dozen countries on this journey.