A Lot More than Half Way
in our dark woods
notches on trees aluminum tabs nailed
tell us
from here on
you're on the path of the orphan
here
you lose your best love
a leg a knee one or more of your senses
as we crawl on
we grow thankful
for the small mercies
half a day's
sun
Anca Vlasopolos published the award-winning novel The New Bedford Samurai; the award-winning memoir No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement; three collections of Poems, Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) (2015); Walking Toward Solstice (2012); and Penguins in a Warming World (2007); three poetry chapbooks, a detective novel, Missing Members, and over two hundred poems and short stories. She was nominated several times for the Pushcart Award in poetry and fiction.
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