Tag Archives: Francesca Bell

In a Strange Time, A Familiar Voice in These Pages- A Poem from Today, March 28th, by Francesca Bell from Rattle’s Poets Respond

March 28, 2020 – 10:22 pm

LOVE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 for my husband, 21 years my senior There are so many times I could have killed you. After 28 years of marriage— the only […]

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Not for the Faint of Heart – Francesca Bell’s Poems of the Merely Bad, the Really Bad and the Dreadful

November 21, 2019 – 3:12 am

Want Small wind tonight and my faced pressed to the flimsy screen. Owls ghost the hilltop trees, fledglings shrilling for food. They eat their own weight in rodents every night, […]

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Dealing with Rejection! – Two Different Responses – Mark Jarman and Francesca Bell

November 17, 2019 – 3:29 pm

from Unholy Sonnets # 34 Although I know God’s immensities can speak In sunlight’s parallels and intersections; although I know the spiritual technique For finding God in all things, when […]

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Bell, Day and Klobah – Poets to Read – And Here, Three of Their Poems – Writing the Body Erotic

January 28, 2018 – 10:44 pm

AND THEN the man remembers your body, remembers to love you again, flicks you like a switch that has waited, ready in the room’s shadows. Loneliness rises from each reclaimed […]

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