Lovely That Black Crow, Grandmother Brought into the Camp
Years later, my grandfather
reached into his pocket for a handkerchief
and extracted my grandmother like a molar from the grave
There’s no exception to the strangeness
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Review – Camaraderie of the Marvelous
From the preface of Camaraderie of the Marvelous: “I give praise for words that hold me captive and sometimes even dance into song”; to the last line of the last poem: “Percussion is a matter of attunement,” Dianna MacKinnon Henning’s new collection of poems gives us music and dancing; also, drought, hunger, shepherds, bodies of water,…
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The Star Drum
Who’s astonished by the way
stars smell like communion wafers?Already the galaxy’s priests
have rounded up the runaways. -
Clover
MacKinnon Henning, D. (2021). Clover. Psychological Perspectives, 64(2), 276. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2021.1959801 In the foliage of my life, I was honey,something extracted, poured into another,so when you found me there was no resemblanceto my former self. Adept at transformation, I jotted notes on where to retrieve myself. Across fields of forever,someone like me spent days rifling through clover,especially for the…
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The Whacking Stick
A boy with a long stick whacks the air.
What demon does he strike? -
Camaraderie of the Marvelous
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New England Farmhouse
Down from Bob Ovitt’s place, two sisters linger
at their clothesline to watch as the farmer’s two hundred
eighty-pound body is hoisted into a flatbed and then
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The Tenderness House – New Edition
The Tenderness House – Kindle Edition: https://a.co/d/ixOjmhx