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Ode to the Clothesline
Not so much the missing of things/ but the nostalgia of colors, their music,/ the ordinary revelation of a family life/ caught in the flop and dance, a jig Kwame Dawes I have never had a clothesline. The idea that a clothesline might be the revela...
read moreLandscape with Sage and the Names of My Children
I put the earth/ all its charms/ within me/ into each waiting pocket lip and ear. Keetje Kuipers Paying attention looks like this. Paying attention looks like putting the earth and all its charms within me into each waiting pocket lip and ear. Tha...
read moreIn the Company of Women
Make me laugh over coffee,/ make it a double, Make it frothy/ so it seethes in our delight. January Hill O'Neil There is something beautiful about the company of women. Gently understood, the company of women is frothy and delightful. It celebrate...
read moreWhat Use Is Knowing Anything
The dream, then: to eruptinto a sturdier form, like a wild lotus bursting into its tantrum of blades. Kaveh Akbar What if tantrums are songs? What if annihilation makes us sturdier? What if the more we know, the more we don't know? What if the ...
read moreAbout Katie
Born in Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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