POET OF THE WEEK
Colleen J. McElroy
Week of May 15
Back to your body of water collection
22/365
22/365
LONE WOLF IN THE RAIN FOREST
a wolf spider guards the mail box
above the shallow place where rain collects
we who rush for news of the world
feel blessed by these last rain free days
the spider waits for some morsel of food
we rush for what news keeps us
hanging on for dear life
LONE WOLF IN THE RAIN FOREST
a wolf spider guards the mail box
above the shallow place where rain collects
we who rush for news of the world
feel blessed by these last rain free days
the spider waits for some morsel of food
we rush for what news keeps us
hanging on for dear life
Colleen J. McElroy 80, Seattle
FAVORITE POETRY FORM Lyrical narrative.
FAVORITE LINE OF POETRY Roethke’s “I learn by going where I have to go”.
WRITING LIKE WATER A stream running over smooth rocks until it reaches an eddy and stirs up mud and bottom feeders that send it
cascading toward the sea.
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