Mother and Daughter
A staggering hot July morning in Mont Sur Lausanne. A mother and daughter brave the street together, Mother’s arm holding up her trembling trophy, her daughter dressed for summer, with legs that won’t comply, a body that bounces, puppet on twisted strings. A triumph these two are, ignoring the sun, the stares of pitying onlookers. The collaborative courage that collapses and reforms every step. Here is the very best of all of us. The Same Dance In the same village as Hesse I see the same gnats dancing in the green-lit light of dusk between softly conducting trees, the breeze that’s a ballet’s breath. We see a dance where death stalks the days; a frantic swirl of mating chances, sudden swerve from a chancing dragonfly, clumsy moth staggering into wakefulness. An hour later, the sun limbos below a glowing mountain ridge and the electron excitement fizzes into mystery, leaving a gathering night’s silence. :Published in May 2021 in Verbal Art, Vol 4, #2.
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Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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