Kimberly Vargas Agnese

Shallows


It’s OK…

to put your pen down,

OK… to breathe and

laugh 

at how your tea bag rustles in shallow ripples,

OK …

to let your laptop sleep

so you can watch little guppies rest in sunlit shadows 

and nibble on poesy …

let their glitter fill your soul 

and wait …

for profunditys’ heights 

and deeps…

to find you

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Published by Kimberly Vargas Agnese

My name is Kimberly Vargas Agnese, though I've previously written as Kae Bucher. I was born in the Florida Keys, but grew up in the Bay Area before migrating south to the San Joaquin Valley. As I ride barefoot around Fresno, I consider the paths I've chosen and the crossroads where our country seems to have perched itself. Thanks to my Romani ancestry, many people groups reside within me and my poetry tends to reflect this. I love welcoming the sunrise with my Native American flute. I've been rumored to juggle while teaching students how to write. And if you can't find me, I'm probably hanging out with Jesus listening to parables.

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  7. Now, Kae, this is what I would call for me a necessary and corrective word. Rarely, do I put down my pen or remove my hands from the keyboard (as is now the case!). Thank you for this. Thank you again and again.

    On immediate second thought (always have them!), I do find that in my most extroverted mode of being that I oft discern what I’m thinking and feeling, sometimes beyond and deeper than anything heretofore I had known, when I write or speak.

    Still, yours is a good word.

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