Thinking about generations of women and their relationships, here is my poem, featured in Maine’s Midcoast Villager last Sunday
Generational
With polite laughter
you skim my surface
while I admire your bright skin, shine
of hair and slim young thoughts.
–
I remember well
the string of lies
you will need to tell yourself
as March lures the bud of daffodil
through frozen soil into cold snow.
–
Shine your light
over my generalities. You deserve more
but can’t imagine it yet.
–
You will find here your own reflection
cast in my eyes’ mirror.
Go ahead, hold me off
while you crack the shell
of your life. I’m still engaged
but wallow in deeper pools
murky, where regret attaches
—like parasites on aged skin
–
When you are old as I am
what will you dig out
of what remains?
In the cleft between energy
and matter there still sprouts
the germ of life. Will
you remember
how fierce
I loved you? Let it stir you?
–
What will replace
this face
these tears?
For years
I pore myself
over your meaning.
Look for more information here about my first full collection of poetry, South Jersey Sand, scheduled to be released by Kelsay Books this November
During the past few years, many of my poems have been published in online literary journals. I am including links to these publications here to make it easy for you to find them. Check out some of the interesting journals out there. Most of these editors are volunteers who put together the publications as a public service to both the writers/artists and the public.
The Midcoast Villager published my poem “Generational” on April 24. See it here.
“Strange Birds” in Neologism Poetry Journal
“A Manor of Endings” in Thimble Literary Magazine
https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2023/08/03/a-manor-of-endings/
The Raven’s Perch has published several poems in 2023-24. See them here
“Water Levels”: April 10, 2023
“Spring Coming in Maine”: April 10, 2023
“Anticipating the 91 Chevy Truck”: April 10, 2023
“Hope in the Days of Covid-19”: , April 10, 2023
“Bright Fruit”:, February 27, 2023
“A Chance to Spring”: The Hopper, Spring 2022
http://www.hoppermag.org/a-chance-to-spring
“The Marriage House”: Spank the Carp, December 2021
https://www.spankthecarp.com/issue66_feldeisen.html
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