Poetry Corner: Moving Day

Couch by Kathabela Wilson.

POETRY CORNER

– 3/23/16

Sandi Pray

Moving Day by Sandi Pray.

Sandi Pray, a poet who divides her time between mountains and river, Robbinsville, North Carolina and St. John, Florida, says “This represents a very sad day in Lake City, FL, leaving my beautiful garden in where two of my furkids were buried. Lots of mixed feelings.”

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Carole MacRury

Starfish by Carole MacRury.

Carole MacRury, of Point Roberts, Washington, says “The dance of the sea star reminds me that life is brief, like our footprints and the slow tracks ​of the sea star as it moves towards shelter, towards the sea, or the shade of a sea stone, or to simply move while they can to escape the disease threatening their species, all will be erased by the incoming tide.”

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Robert Franson

“The cod are gone” by Robert Franson.

Robert Franson says of his moving photo “I took this photo in Red Cliffe, Newfoundland & Labrador, on June 21, 2012. I live in Santa Cruz, California. For me, the scene was evocative of the tragedy that struck hundreds of small communities along the Newfoundland shore when the cod fishery collapsed in the 1960s and 70s. Canada finally closed the fishery on July 1, 1992, putting 40,000 people who had to move, out of work.”

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Alexis Rotella

Moving Day by Alexis Rotella.

Alexis Rotella lives in Arnold, Maryland. She is a renowned poet and artist who, Kathabela says, is a great commentator on life and its challenges.

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