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Turn Around
Where are you going my little one, little oneWhere are you going my baby my ownTurn around and you're twoTurn around and you're fourTurn around and you're a young girlGoing out of the door From Nanci Griffith's "Turn Around" "The days are long, bu...
read more‘Twould ease — a Butterfly
'Twould ease — a Butterfly —/ Elate — a Bee —/ Thou'rt neither —/ Neither — thy capacity –// But, Blossom, were I, I would rather be/ Thy moment/ Than a Bee's Eternity —// Content of fading/ Is enough for me —/ Fade I unto Divinity ...
read moreChrysalis
Corpses push up through thawing permafrost/ as I scrape salmon skin off a pan at the sink; on the porch, moths in slanting yellow light// undulate in air. Arthur Sze Butterflies fight to break out of a chrysalis. Freedom depends on the strength of...
read moreI Wish
I wish to see/ your magnificence/ even in the prayers left unanswered. F.S. Yousaf To see magnificence in prayers left unanswered. To feel joy in the midst of sadness. To witness miracles in the everyday. To be heartbroken with grief and still see...
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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