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My new poem, “Looking Good for the Apocalypse,” is in this wonderful third volume of the Voices of the Earth anthology. I’ll be reading it at one of the book launch events April 11 at the RI Audubon’s Nature Center in Bristol, RI: https://asri.org/learn/naturecenteraquarium.html.
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Awed by Rick Benjamin’s read of my chapbook: You have to start with the title of Karina Lutz’s new collection: as if you’ve just happened upon a small group of rabbis engaged in a deep conversation about the Catholic mass. Always open to interpretation, on the one hand; closed dogma on the other. Past this…
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for Mary Wise Hughes Originally published in Poecology V (Aug. 2015) http://poecology.org/issue-5/lutz/ Extra mothers to each others’ kids, you and I have walked this land of sweet soil before. Remember: we found a jack-in-the-pulpit growing here like an old friend with whom time collapses to nothing: the joy! And once we came when the wild…
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This sweet, sweet smell of life itself—I breathe deep drafts and linger, cheek on softest cheek. No rush today as I lay claim to this moment; I am here to start her day and she wakes up happy, reaches for my neck, flittering eyelashes. But those tiny butterflies revert to caterpillars, her eyes move under…
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“Oh! I have something beautiful to show you.” Her eyes flicker open closed, her hand reaches out, heel of palm up, “see, when you hold it up to the light it sparkles!” Suddenly, a pull back, a disappointed “oh” as her empty hand tucks under her still curled, still waking body. She doesn’t know she…