Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! Let’s enjoy a pair of poems by the wonderful Olena Kalytiak Davis from the incredible 2014 collection, The Poem She Didn’t Write and Other Poems. Enjoy! NOT THIS my god all the days we have lived thrusayingnot thisone, not...
SKY DIVING I hang on the edge of this universe singing off-key talking too loud embracing myself to cushion the fall I shall tumble into deep space never in this form or with this feeling to return to earth It is not tragic I will spiral through that Black hole losing...
EVE REMEMBERING 1 I tore from a limb fruit that had lost its green. My hands were warmed by the heat of an apple Fire red and humming. I bit sweet power to the core. How can I say what it was like? The taste! The taste undid my eyes And led me far from the gardens...
Happy Tuesday, friends! As I mentioned yesterday, I’m throwing myself back into doing the things I love—and I LOVE celebrating my fellow writers. If you’d like to have one of your works featured, or do a mini-interview with me about your process or...
THE LIGHT THE DEAD SEE There are many people who come backAfter the doctor has smoothed the sheetAround their bodyAnd left the room to make his call.They die but they live.They are called the dead who lived through their deaths,And among my peopleThey are considered...