Poetry Reading: Anastasia, by Murphy Carpenter
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Performed by Val Cole
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2) What motivated you to write this poem?
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POEM:
Talking endlessly and without reason,
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I pause,
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POEM:
—For my mother
while night scoops down to transform silt in the veins
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stretched fraying before day breaks
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