WELL DONE! GOOD VIBES YOUR WAY by Candice Marley Conner

GOOD VIBES YOUR WAY by Candice Marley Conner

I don’t understand

how people don’t see it’s the same

thing whether you say

for you, I’ll pray, or

positive vibes your way.

It could be a yellow sunflower, tilting

its brown-seeded face to the sun,

inviting you to do the same.

Or weeds recognized as wildflowers

in the sap-sticky fist of a child, who

presents it to you because it’s the prettiest

and most magical

thing they had to give you.

It could be a smooth, moon-colored rock the exact

shape of your thumbprint.

(Out of all the thumbs on the planet,

this stone fits yours best.)

It could be the way dew beads

on the fringes of a furry green fiddlehead,

dazzling as the morning light

(this morning, that has never existed before

and never will again)

shimmers on its surface

reflecting back to you all the colors

of newborn stars.

I think

if you whisper it out into the world,

(a bellow will do too)

then listen,

it’s all the same thing.

Candice Marley Conner is a haint at the Haunted Bookshop in Downtown Mobile and an officer for her local writer’s guild. Her poems and stories are in various anthologies and magazines including Wild: An Anthology of Poetry, Woolgathering, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and more. She is the author of three picture books and a YA Southern mystery.