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Clade Song 14

 

[this darkening]

this darkening
I gather in

witch-hazel   yellow
all else   near

rust or rust   wild
turkeys   flock-walk

into inflorescence  
gone to seed   smoke

wind-willed   silencing
up and up   beneath

a moon-cut   night-bowl
crazed   with stars

now snow
brambles   scribble 

near    a feeder-full  
flicker-and-wren


 
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Karen Earle, a private practice psychotherapist, served as faculty member of the New Directions Program/Writing with a Psychoanalytic Edge. Before becoming a psychotherapist, she earning an MFA in Poetry from University of Massachusetts/Amherst, was adjunct faculty at Widener University and director of the writing lab at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Her poetry has appeared in various journals, including: G W Review, Chaffin Journal, Chaminade, Denver Quarterly Literary Review, Hudson Valley Echoes, Tupelo Press, Sugar House Review, Clade Song, and SWWIM. She was a semi-finalist in The Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest, awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship, and attended several Colrain Poetry Conferences to complete work on her manuscript Honey & Sting.