Postcard from My Twenties
By Diane LeBlanc
Day begins with a ligature of moon and water. Bring me nothing except sage and antler velvet. Day ends with black bear sow leaking evening milk on pasqueflower and gravel. I follow her shining ellipsis into a meadow of things unsaid. In the hours between I release an egg and begin to rust. I pray for rain to paint my fence yellow with hollyhock dust.
Diane LeBlanc is a writer, teacher, and book artist with roots in Vermont, Wyoming, and Minnesota. She is the author of The Feast Delayed (Terrapin Books, 2021) and four poetry chapbooks. Poems and essays appear in Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and Mid-American Review, among others. Diane is a holistic life coach with emphasis in creativity practice. She is a professor and writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College. Read more at www.dianeleblancwriter.com.
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