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Don’t Take Me Back – the painful side of social media’s 2016 trend
2016 is trending;but it’s the year that markedthe years to comeof lifewithout a babythe year I didnt knowthat I would startto die. 2016 is trending;it’d be a long and painfulburialmonth by monthby month bymonth—this is what it’s liketo diewhen you arestill alive. (But are you?) I can’t get backthere.Nor do I want to—do not take meback.… Continue reading
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The Audacity – a poem for winter nights
The following is one of the few poems I wrote in the fall when I was finalizing Carol of the Mourning Dove and sharing it with the world. While it was a poem inspired by my sunflowers in the autumn, I think it is quite a fitting dare and resolution for these winter nights. I… Continue reading
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Everything Is Beautiful & Everything Is Not
In November I came across an unfinished, unshared poem in my poetry journal. Even though the poem is a rough 20 lines I realized it was actually a complete thought in just the first stanza. I must have written this when I was early postpartum with my baby, Sylvia. She was born last year the… Continue reading
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Chicken Noodle Soup – a love story
Five old bowls on the kitchen counter, Dad gets home from work, hello! Dishes in the sink again, and goldfish on the floor. Wash up, kids, it’s time to eat. Homemade chicken noodle soup, and tomorrow we will repeat. But maybe Tuesday dinner is chicken nuggets made from frozen, sliced potatoes, canned green beans. Well,… Continue reading
Sierra V. Fedorko 