Nature’s Embrace by Evie Groch

In a fold in the hills lies

my home, tugged awake

at dawn by slender

twists of fog.

They slip through my blinds

and massage my view.

I face the day

through a filter

of gentle anticipation

as my horizon widens

and my focus sharpens.

In time I came to accept

the ways of the hills

and to allow the fog

to tuck me in its blanket

for the night.

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Evie Groch, Ed.D. is a Field Supervisor/Mentor for new administrators in Graduate Schools of Education.  Her opinion pieces, humor, poems, short stories, recipes, word challenges, and other articles have been published in the New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Contra Costa Times, and The Journal. Many of her poems are in published anthologies. Her travelogues have been published online with Grand Circle Travel. The themes of travel and immigration are special for her.