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6/26/2019 0 Comments

The end of June and water skippers

These long days are an invitation to sit by a pond and contemplate nature. In my pond there is a city on legs, and here is a poem on those thoughts.

Rings upon rings

as if a torrent of rain
wants to drown this pond.

—Get close and see.

These ripples, not of rain,
but water skippers!

A city on legs
balanced on the skin of water.

In a game, or maybe a war,
of meet and retreat.

The smaller ones race
for a brief connection,

in a second secrets are shared
new circles inflate, shimmer

and fracture the calm
of a cloudy day

distort the mirror of trees
a vibration of braches

making the summer dance,
this is the hallucinogenic power

of waking on water.

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6/21/2019 0 Comments

Pensamientos en el día de los padres

I have been thinking a lot about my father lately. Maybe is because of Father’s Day, maybe because of the transient nature of our existence in this short-lived planet. Regardless of the reason, reading Sandeep Jauhar’s book ‘Heart A History,’ inspired this new poem. I hope you will enjoy it.

The organ as a heart

I want to see the depths
of my father’s heart,
the confusion
of failed arteries,
the atrophy
of muscle
from a life filled
with the spoils of regret.

I know it is just a pump,
no ‘virtue spirits’ there,

still, I struggle
to hold on to Galen’s view,
and pretend to know my father cared for me
in the caverns of those now-empty chambers.
I want to walk in its darkness
hold the softness of those walls,
to find its sentiments,
as flawed as the man that carried it.

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6/9/2019 0 Comments

Today: Ancestral Voices

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Amelia Díaz Ettinger was born in Mexico but was raised with her paternal family in Puerto Rico, where she grew up as a single child in a large, male-dominated, family. At nineteen she ran away to Washington State, to pursue a Master’s of Science in Biology and to liberate herself from the hermetic hold the island, and her family had on her. Currently, she is finishing her first year in Eastern’s MFA program in creative writing. Her poetry and short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies. Her first collection of poetry, Speaking at a Time, was published in 2015 by Redbat Books. Learning to Love a Western Sky will be available this fall from Airlie Press, and Fossils on a Red Flag will be available from Finishing Line Press next year.

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The end of June and water skippers

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