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Featured Poetry

Christopher James – Cider, memories, and dreams

November 14, 2021November 12, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In the hushed lines of Christopher James' Cider, memories, and dreams, we are brought along with the narrator as he wanders an overgrown family orchard, remembers the past, and ponders the future.

Tagged apples, autumn, cider, Dreams, family, harvest, history, idyll, memories, nature, pastoral care, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Serape
Way-Seeking Mind

Serape

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY SARAH CHAVERA EDWARDS I never knew him in life. The man with calloused hands and almond eyes that would turn into half-moons when he laughed.

Tagged ancestry, chicana, family, inheritance, memoir3 Comments
Way-Seeking Mind

Dad Too Late

November 12, 2020November 12, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY KENT JACOBSON My father clomped through life with boots—“Your mother will turn you into a softy”— and died early.

Tagged childhood, family, father, memory1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Yes, This

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY APRIL NANCE I have a photograph of my childhood self taken by my Aunt Sandy. In the picture she has tamed my scraggly hair and combed it into a neat blonde bob.

Tagged childhood, family, imagine, music, peace1 Comment
Chris Alaimo
Featured, Featured Poetry

Chris Alaimo – Lovely Kid

August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

Chris Alaimo's Lovely Kid is an expression of grief for the freedom and innocence through which we explore ourselves in exploring the world in childhood.

Tagged childhood, Children, family, grief, letting go, mourning, pain, traumaLeave a comment
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- BOOK BITS -

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