jodyserey

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jodyserey
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I am a longtime resident of the low desert in Arizona, and have been "some kind of writer" for my entire professional life. I am currently getting old, which I assume is the goal.

  May 2021     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

Going After Mistletoe

Nana was there for the birth
so when her child could drive again
we went to cut the mistletoe,
grandmother and mother in the front,
babies in the back.

The Dodge made its way through
dusty Arkansas, and mountain roads
powdered up in...

– by Jody Serey

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Amabilis

That February at school,
She heard her Lover’s voice,
Dreams darkened with His call
She sold her books and
Sent her cat home
To her...

– by Jody Serey

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out of print

a century,
  it was...

– by Jody Serey

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Mothers Day, 1958

waited until May to wear her pride
the linen suit with the pleats that fanned
against the prize,
the late-life child, the one to change the...

– by Jody Serey

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At the Diner in Cincinnati, 1975

I eat my lunch with old women
to remind me who I am
under all this plumage

there are six or eight whose
faces occupy the spaces
in the little booths
but seldom more than four
smile to me when I walk...

– by Jody Serey

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