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Mending

by Melanie Green

After bumble and debacle,
stress and overdo—
viral flare in the this-body.

Cattywampus.
Ache and slow
garb of the moment.

So, to the delve
and distill, the verbing
of rest, composition—lull.

Time is spindrift, null.
Fathom hush
through a gentled window.

The human form,
made from old stars
and their gritty knowledge,

with millions of wisdom
years within that heal
the nicked and rubble.

The endure-body
which mends itself over
and over again.

from The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#13)
nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Shawn Aveningo Sanders, editor/publisher

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Annie Bloom’s welcomes local poets Margaret Chula, Melanie Green, and Carolyn Martin

Thurs, Nov 14, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Annie Bloom’s

7834 SW Capitol Hwy
(Multnomah Village)
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

The poems in Melanie Green‘s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm (The Poetry Box) are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/long-wide-stretch-of-calm

In Shadow Man (The Poetry Box), Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward, often heartbreaking, interactions with her estranged father, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/shadow-man

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades (Unsolicited Press), takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing. Carolyn will also be sharing poems from her 2^nd poetry collection, The Way A Woman Knows (The Poetry Box). https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-way-a-woman-knows

Free to Attend. All are welcome to share the love of poetry by these phenomenal women.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

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