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woman, listening

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


like a great sea mirroring
cloud and moon and willow

some mornings stand lovely
and idle

first words a whisper
from the earth—

there are certain fields ripe
for cutting



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a found/collage poem
source text: Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth


Robin Turner is a Texas poet and an online writing guide for teens. Her poems have been tucked into little poetry houses in Pittsburgh, paired with photographs in a Deep Ellum art gallery, and transformed into tiny artist books for the White Rock Zine Machine in Dallas. A Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has most recently appeared in Bracken Magazine, River Mouth Review, Ethel, One Art, and Unbroken.

Culling Season

Self Portrait as a Landscape