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Tracie Vaughn Zimmer Ramblings about the reading and writing life.
1. IRA and Poetry Friday

 Please come see me at International Reading Association: 

Monday May 4

11:00 AM  Signing Bloomsbury Booth (#839)  

1:00 PM  "Beyond Haiku: Building a Poetry Repertoire" (Featured Author Strand)

 Minneapolis CC, Room 200 ABC
3:00 Signing at the CLARION BOOTH (#2536)

And here's a new poem I wrote for an anthology to raise money for the Patch Adams hospital:

Peace

It’s wiggling the hook out

of the fish’s mouth

watching the flash and form

dissolve  in dark waters.

It’s bitter words swallowed

before they push past

the gates of angry lips.

It’s a back turning

a head shaking

a refusal to hear

an ugly rumor,

a compromising joke,

lies.

 

It’s sandbags

passed hand to hand

by a river

that’s tipping over,

or a guest bedroom

bulging with refugees.

It’s oatmeal

on cracked, swollen

fly-bitten lips.

 

A book

whose words

seem meant for the reader

or post-card scenery

sliding past a window.

It’s the perfect silence

of an empty room

all one’s own.

 

It’s this hand,

reaching out to yours.

 
- Tracie Vaughn Zimmer

Maya Ganeson is doing the Poetry Friday round-up over at allegro

 

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