Northern Lights, by Penny Callan Partridge
Reprinted from January-February, 1996, Adoption Triad ForumHow is this for a conception story?
This tall skinny man makes it
up to the Arctic from Arkansas
in the darkening days of autumn
in the dark days of World War II
and this short round schoolteacher
from South Dakota also arrives and
they're just friends watching the
bears in the garbage after dinner
until one night he knocks on the
door of her Quonset hut dormitory
and they drive out under the
shimmering scarves of dozens of
dancers playing tag up over them.
And they watch until something
like their own iridescence
starts spilling out and they too
become spinning rainbows
splashing their own shimmery
light back up at the sky. And
I, through these dizzy dazzling
moments that could never
have been anticipated,
have the miraculous fortune
to come into being.Originally From:
An Adoptee's Dreams, Poems and Stories
Last updated January 14, 1997