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Cento Between the Ending and the End
Oh friends, my friends— bloom how you must, wild until we are free. From Cameron Awkward-Rich's "Cento Between the Ending and the End" If I could, I would make a patchwork quilt of life. It would, of course, include poems. It would incl...
read moreThe Last Thing
I knowyou don’t always understand,but let me point to the firstwet drops landing on the stones,the noise like fingers drummingthe skin. I can’t help it. I willnever get over making everythingsuch a big deal.From Ada Limon's "The Last Thing" I ...
read moreWeekly Wide-Awake: The Promise of Easter
May the promise of Easter, of springtime and miracles, of resurrection and hope, of pastels and paten leather, of bow ties and bonnets, of the sunrise and the living cross, of lilies and wet grass, of lambs and butterflies, of palms and banyans, of p...
read moreSong Out Here
if i could singyou would hear me and i would tell youit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alrightit’s gonna be alright it would be something like thatFrom Juan Felipe Herrera's "Song Out Here" Today I claim it's gonna be alright as a mantra. T...
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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