Monthly Archives: March 2020

Celebrating Women Poets Following International Woman’s Day – Two Poems by Samantha Fain and One by Me

March 12, 2020 – 4:13 pm

Woman as Wet Collection He tells me, this is science. These are facts. Your body bakes the bread. Your knees bond to the floorboards. Scrub. Whisper. Speak white noise but […]

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A Few Days Late – A Heck of a Poem (And One Other!) to Celebrate International Woman’s Day!!! Or to Celebrate Women on Any Darn Day!!!Please Say Hello to American Poet Bianca Spriggs!

March 10, 2020 – 7:31 pm

What Women Are Made Of There are many kinds of open. — Audre Lorde We are all ventricle, spine, lung, larynx, and gut. Clavicle and nape, what lies forked in an […]

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Gone for a Year, Today – Dear Patrick, Poet and Friend, Bless You. And Thanks for Your Great Kid’s Book Poem! It Cheers Me Up!

March 7, 2020 – 6:12 pm

An excerpt from Milford and Me – An Illustrated Kid’s Book (Milford in this poem/book is a small turtle) We walk along down by the turnips. There is no one […]

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A Poem – My Response to the News of the Sexual and Relationship Abuse of Women by the Once-Celebrated Canadian Jean Vanier

March 2, 2020 – 12:39 pm

This Impossible Math – The Grace and Rightness You Were Minus the Wrong You Were, Equals, What? I grieve to speak of love and yet not love as I should. […]

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