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The Artist

By Helen Caddes

she's got beautiful eyes
hazel
color of a Grecian sunset
with flecks of amber and gold

she is responsible
and sane
in a country that is not,
radical fundamentalists
swarming around every church
broadcasting the wealth
of servitude

at once,
she is resolute
and unsure
striving forward
with calculated steps

never to doubt herself
but then
the world is uncertain
money is tight
the good life
a bauble
dangling above our heads

I love her like fire
in a city
where we hide the flame
carefully tucked inside our hearts

Helen Caddes is a poet and musician living in Nashville, TN. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has most recently appeared in Rain and Thunder and Knoxville-based gay rights publication the Equality Herald. She enjoys photography, unadulterated landscapes, and vintage journals from the 70's.