once I married light my fingers ringed iridescent now humming bird-full the Copper-tip or Falling Star summer begins its firefly-dark finale hemlock and queen anne’s lace pirate fields and woods where sun snakes coil oily shade-pools nearby a dog barks its wild
Karen Earle is a private practice psychotherapist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including The GW Review, Chaffin Journal, Chaminade, The Denver Quarterly Literary Review, Hudson Valley Echoes, The Last Millweed Anthology (Tupelo Press), and Sugar House Review. She was awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship and has attended several Colrain Poetry Manuscript conferences.
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The imagery in this is so vivid for me! Thank you for sharing.