SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.

[once I married]

once I married
light my fingers

ringed iridescent
now humming

bird-full
the Copper-tip

or Falling Star
summer begins

its firefly-dark
finale hemlock and

queen anne’s lace
pirate fields and woods

where sun snakes coil
oily shade-pools

nearby a dog
barks its wild



Karen Earle is a private practice psychotherapist. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including The GW Review, Chaffin Journal, Chaminade, The Denver Quarterly Literary Review, Hudson Valley Echoes, The Last Millweed Anthology (Tupelo Press), and Sugar House Review. She was awarded a Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing fellowship and has attended several Colrain Poetry Manuscript conferences.

Emptied Out

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