Poem-a-Day

Poem-a-day

I am a child
of wonder again and
rain tells me to watch
for snails and slugs.

I gather dirt, sand, and sticks
for the terrarium
where I make a safe home
away from footsteps, fast cars, and ditch water.

I don’t want them to die
so I make them
a space for living.

I ask my ma to buy lettuce
because in the book I got from the library
I learned they will eat lettuce.

I am
greedy to learn
what keeps everything alive.

Their spiral shapes leave shiny trails behind.
I imagine I am a snail leaving
magic everywhere I go.

Marlanda Dekine

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Force Drift (VII)	Jeffrey Pethybridge	02/05/2020
Sophia the Robot Contemplates Beauty	Safiya Sinclair	02/04/2020
Entering Saint Patrick’s Cathedral	Malachi Black	02/03/2020
The Dawn’s Awake!	Otto Leland Bohanan	02/02/2020
We are Marching	Carrie Law Morgan Figgs	02/01/2020
Body Encounters Barrier, or Stairs (Not a Metaphor)	Tara Hardy	01/31/2020
Deserving	Terisa Siagatonu	01/30/2020
Predictions of the Material	Jessica Guzman	01/29/2020
Violin	Nikki Wallschlaeger	01/28/2020
With a Petroleum Coating	Trace Peterson	01/27/2020

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02/05/2020