Ten Moments<\/p>\n
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Breathing in the space
\nthat doesn’t need to be filled,
\nbreathing out what cannot fill me…<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
I am here
\nhearing the stones speak
\nas rain falls on them.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
Self-portrait: the look I have
\non my face
\nwhen no one’s looking.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
Between memories and forgetting
\nthe forest of nostalgia
\nwith no trails.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
Moments pop up everywhere. Here
\ncomes another one, there goes another
\none, now they’re all blending together.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
I’m not sure what her face
\nis saying, but whatever it’s saying,
\nit’s really saying it.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
A purr plays with
\nthe bubble of silence,
\na meow bursts it.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
Where the wind comes from
\nand where it goes…
\nIt’s the same for all of us.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
He’s staring at me.
\nHe’s daydreaming his mind
\ninto mine.<\/p>\n
* * *<\/p>\n
So, nothing lasts. Now what? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten Moments Breathing in the space that doesn’t need to be filled, breathing out what cannot fill me… * * * I am here hearing the stones speak as rain falls on them. * * * Self-portrait: the look … Continue reading
\nJust this…and the moon
\ngrowing brighter each night.
\nOLIVIA DRESHER<\/a> is a poet, publisher, editor and anthologist living in Seattle (Wallingford) since 1981. She is the publisher of Impassio Press<\/a> and the founder\/editor of FragLit Magazine,<\/a> and in 2012 was co-editor of the online magazine qarrtsiluni<\/em> <\/a>for the issue on fragments. She is also co-founder and director of the Life Writing Connection. Her poetry, fragments and essays have appeared in anthologies and a variety of online and in-print literary magazines. She is the editor of In Pieces: An<\/em> Anthology of Fragmentary Writing<\/em> <\/a>and co-editor of Darkness and Light: Private Writing as Art: An<\/em> Anthology of Contemporary Journals, Diaries, and Notebooks.<\/em><\/a> She has written thousands of poetic fragments at Twitter,<\/a> spontaneously, and is currently working on a selection of these for several in-print collections. Her complete Bio and select writings can be found at www.OliviaDresher.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n