July Spotlight: Lake Havasu, 1970

This month’s Spotlight features author Alyson Osbourn, a fellow Globe Soup member from Oregon.

The format is a little different this month. Instead of our usual short story, we’re featuring a poem. In just 100 words, Lake Havasu, 1970 reminds us that the smallest moments often become our most treasured stories. Alyson’s piece beautifully celebrates sisterhood, simple pleasures, and the magic found in mornings spent at the lake.

Enjoy!

Lake Havasu, 1970

That August my sister and I
Woke early to eat milky cereal
From colorful plastic bowls
Saved just for vacation.
We’d set them inside our inflatable craft,
Then kick smoothly out onto the lake
Right up to where we could go before
Being told we’d gone too far.
Balancing bowls on the water there,
We flipped the boat over and bobbed
Into our secret air pocket hideaway
Where with masterful eggbeater kicks
We’d breakfast at the lake surface table.
We were water sprites one perfect summer,
Giddiness reflected in moiré rainbows glinting
From our bowls to shimmer our beaming faces.

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Alyson Osbourne is an audio describer for several performing arts organizations, including Pacific Northwest Ballet, writing and narrating scripts for dance patrons in the blind and low vision community. She is also a teaching artist specializing in interdisciplinary performing arts throughout Oregon, a fervent animal lover, and proudly neurodivergent. Reach her at SpokenOptica@gmail.com