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A Million Tender Somethings After “For My People” by Margaret Walker AlexanderFor those whose blurting out to heaven never ceases, the self-critics who blame themselves for every failure, for this biggest failure;For the prodded and piped and pained who remain with-echo;For those who bought themselves a coffee after the OBGYN, after the fertility specialist, after […]
This poem was previously published by South Florida Poetry Journal. It was also included in my debut poetry collection, Let Go of the Hands You Hold (Mercer University Press), as a QR Code so readers could put down the page and listen to me perform the poem from the stage. Inspired by Gabriela Garcia Medina, […]
BalanceI could write endlessly about all things forebodinghurricanes and turbulencemore likely due to warmer air that reminds us of a season we hope to thrive in.From June’s blossoms come a life in harvest, dark soil blankets the roots of all that green:a pasture, cross haired vines, meadows abundant with wild petals every bloom opens in […]
Coming Into FocusRereading Anna Karenina for the umpteenth time,but as a mother with grandkids, I pause at parts I once skimmed, linger on the children’slaughter and little scissors,skimming the love affairs,focusing mostly on Levin,scything in hot sun,evoking my Polish husband,fluent in Russian,who died with a well-marked War and Peace on his nightstand,whom we buried in […]
