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Counting the Weeper's Rings

SWWIM Every Day
by Jules Jacob

It's #tbt! Enjoy this great one from SWWIM Every Day's archives!

Swaying in tree
pose invoking ability
to quell shaking limbs,

I question years of narrow
rings future possibilities
of wide ones in-between.

I breathe-in realign
bend to chronic thirst
skip warrior III, exhaling

stronger children
in eucalyptus & western
red cedar hiding

them in willow hair
before we drop
to corpse pose.

Jules Jacob is the author of Kingdom of Glass & Seed (Lily Poetry Review Books 2023), Rappaccini’s Garden, with Sonja Johanson (forthcoming White Stag Publishing Summer 2024), and The Glass Sponge, a semi-finalist in The New Women’s Voices Series (Finishing Line Press 2013). Her poems are featured or forthcoming in Plume, Rust + Moth, Lily Poetry Review, Rappahannock Review, and elsewhere. Jules is an Emeritus Master Gardener, recipient of a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, and former Court Appointed Special Advocate for the Thirty-first Circuit Court of Missouri.

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