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#PoetryMatters Day 9: #Undercover

#StorySettings Day 9: #Snowstorm - this was shared by Fats who lives jn Ohio back in 2020. Here‘s the GatheringBooks link: https://wp.me/pDlzr-lBI

Third of 3 books about Kristina Snow and addiction. This one holds the voices of her 3 older children: Hunter, Autumn, and Summer. These 3 live with different guardians and have different last names. Two more, boys under 13, live with Kristina‘s mom. Her children are troubled and angry, fearful and psychologically empty. Shows how addiction and abuse affects family and friends.

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Things take the time they take. Don't worry.
How many roads did St. Augustine follow
before he became St. Augustine?

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There are a few collections out there that you can never read enough times, that you open and immediately it‘s like coming home.

#PoetryMatters Day 8: #Underbelly

A book of poems for children? Perhaps, if written by Uncle Edgar Allen Poe for niece and nephew Wednesday and Pugsley Addams 💀
While not overtly horrific, the overall atmosphere is of melancholy, loss, death, night and febrile passion.
The opening poem, The Horseman, initially reads as a bit of nonsense nursery rhyme, but then, surely, the pale rider on his ivory horse coming over the moonlit hill can be none other than Death stalking the ⬇️