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Issue 8: | June 2021 |
Poem: | 113 words |
A walk around and up, the rug pulled out to reveal a not-there floor, memories that aren’t mine— a photograph of my parents on their wedding day, December 5, fifty-six years ago, my mother in a navy wool suit and matching pill box hat, a black rose pin on her lapel that I wear now. My father in a dark brown suit, his thick eyebrows framing his open face. We’re a family that does better the second time, second marriages, second chances when the shine is scuffed, when I can meet a friend for coffee and discover I left the house still wearing my slippers and it’s not the end of everything.
is a poet living in Richmond, California. Her work previously appeared in KYSO Flash, and most recently in Eclectica, Coffee Poems, and West Marin Review. She is a freelance editor, and managing editor of Jung Journal: Cultural and Psyche.
Ekphrastic poetry by LeeAnn Pickrell:
⚡ Hand and Wheel, after Georgia O’Keeffe—Hand and Wheel (1933) by Alfred Stieglitz, in KYSO Flash (Issue 8, August 2017)
⚡ Ode to Coffee, after a painting by Richard Diebenkorn, in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 4, July 2020)
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