“Good Girls, Good Mothers” and “Talking to Animals"
katieriegel
Poet, cnf writer, teacher, mentor. Co-founder, former poetry editor, and current managing editor at Sweet (sweetlit.org). I offer online classes and mentoring for poets and writers of cnf.
Cordova, TN, United States
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Selected work (4 publications)
Two poems...We lived
so easily then but no one
knew it, the 1970s full
of fear as any decade...
Wind Pulls at the Gravity-BoundI have always loved the wind:
chimes gabbling as fast as they can
like a toddler just back from the park,
the creaking of trees who know
they must let themselves bend again,
again, the new sounds the house learns
to show how alive it is..
"In Which I Consider Depression and the Fall of Humanity in the Context of My Dog’s Misbehavior" and 3 more poems...When I put down
the goodness in myself and can’t find it again,
I travel back through time
searching for the source of evil. What does it feel like
to know you deserve to be alive?...