A life told straight
is a fearsome thing,
a needle compassed,
magnet-charged
to sudden borders,
shadow-plagued,
its footprints
filling with snow,
its mapless
birds
darting,
dancing,
gone.
Lori Powell teaches ESL to children and adults in the Washington, DC area but is plotting to live elsewhere, preferably someplace with sea breezes. She is the author of one chapbook, Truth and Lies, published by Black Buzzard Press, and has published poems in a variety of journals.
is a fearsome thing,
a needle compassed,
magnet-charged
to sudden borders,
shadow-plagued,
its footprints
filling with snow,
its mapless
birds
darting,
dancing,
gone.
Lori Powell teaches ESL to children and adults in the Washington, DC area but is plotting to live elsewhere, preferably someplace with sea breezes. She is the author of one chapbook, Truth and Lies, published by Black Buzzard Press, and has published poems in a variety of journals.
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