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Posted on September 14, 2015

“Grief Ambition Knot of Self” Published in the Fall 2015 Issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing

My poem “Grief Ambition Knot of Self” appears in the Fall 2015 issue of Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing. Many thanks to Jacinta White for her work on The Word Project and Snapdragon.

grief, ambition, knot of self that won’t untangle, fear of my own
banked fires, caught between frost and sunshine, caught between

Read the entire poem here

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