Touch: The Journal of Healing
Copyright © 2013
Touch: The Journal of Healing
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Unfolding Origami
by David Olsen
In silent self-protection
a tightly folded bud
encloses latent possibilities.
A gentle touch reveals a rose.
Another, deft and delicate,
releases a fully open leaf
capable of any new shape.
Faint creases record her past.
© 2013 David Olsen
David Olsen's third poetry chapbook, Sailing to Atlantis, is new from Finishing Line Press. Since early 2011, he has placed poems in Acumen, Envoi, SAW Poetry, Orbis, Assent, Interpreter’s House, Bloodroot, Deronda Review, Scintilla, Babel, Sounds of Surprise, and competition anthologies from Cinnamon Press and Templar Poetry.