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Deborah Sheppard

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Poems: Tourist

I started my writing life as a sociologist, which for me is akin to being a tourist in one’s own milieu: seeing the familiar and expected with new eyes.

Tourist

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Rock face is rounded in gentle furrows,

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Lamentation

The barge furrows the canal,Continue reading “Lamentation”

Kitchen Dream

(for Annabel Weinstein and Harry Castelli)

 

I live in a forest of pale maple.Continue reading “Kitchen Dream”

Rules of Engagement

A week ago, they had a conversation,Continue reading “Rules of Engagement”

After Anne Died

Sisters bound together, clutch a length of fraying ropeContinue reading “After Anne Died”

Aunt Anne Comes Home

Flurries slice the air sideways,Continue reading “Aunt Anne Comes Home”

For The Man Who Fed Us

(to the memory of Norman Konlup)

 

Forager, you found

treasures in the cracks

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Artemis Waits in the Carpool Line

This is the only time I get to be alone,Continue reading “Artemis Waits in the Carpool Line”

The Man who Saved Blue Babies

(for Bob Usher)

 

The too-soon babies pulsed their hearts intoContinue reading “The Man who Saved Blue Babies”

Licorice Stick

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African blackwood

hollowed and belled,Continue reading “Licorice Stick”

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