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Barbara Gilchrist's avatar

Lovely! A very dreamlike and soothing poem.

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James Don BlueWolf's avatar

I especially enjoyed your format of highlighting character's lives precursor to the events. I came in expecting a tale of fire and woe and instead got a refresher in the humanity involved in the loss with the dramatic finish of the animate wind stirring itself into being. Wonderful. Thanks...jdb

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Barbara ONeal's avatar

Thanks, James. That means a lot.

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Charlotte Rains Dixon, MFA's avatar

So moving. I'm way late to the party but I've just discovered the poetry of Marie Howe. Your poem reminds me a bit of her work, in it's documenting of the miraculous in the everyday, made so poignant in the knowledge of what was to come.

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Barbara ONeal's avatar

Thanks for the recommendation. I love the ordinary, and poets who celebrate it.

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Regina Mastrogiacomo's avatar

beautiful

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Deborah Thompson's avatar

Wonderful. I’ve never read anything quite like this and I love it. I call myself a “bad poet” because I think that I am not good enough, cultured enough, learned enough, to write a proper poem. I feel too constricted by rules and regulations dictated by “Poetry Norms” and my creativity dries up and turns into a thick, grumpy crust that crumbles and dies. So nice to meet you here on Substack :)

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