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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
| Issue 12: | March 2022 |
| Tanka Sequence: | 90 words |
By Pris Campbell
No More...
mammograms colonoscopies or bone densities trying to see old age with the glass part full my hunky PT works me in the pool wet tee clinging memories surface of skinny dipping days in the faded photo mother is four years ahead of me I thought she was old but she was only a girl, too last cousin gone by my age I wonder if the frail family heart will take me too however delayed death still takes us a chill falls from the waning moon feeding my fear
Pris Campbell’s
Issue 12, March 2022
writings have appeared in numerous journals, such as Acorn, cattails, Frogpond, and others. She took first place in the 2021 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest and in the 2021 Marlene Mountain Memorial Haiku Contest. She makes her home in the U.S.
Author’s website: www.poeticinspire.com
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