Trawling 2

I was a little disappointed when I received my contributor’s copy of this anthology so I never mentioned it. But hey, if your work gets picked, be thankful. If it gets mentioned in a review, shout it out… hmmm I’m not really the shouting type unless some chemicals are running in my veins (or so I imagine). So here.


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The poetry is the second reason I love this book. I’m a sucker for poetry, and good grandparent poems are hard to find. From the Porch Swing is chock-full of them–honest, unvarnished poems about grandparents who were the same way…


Jim Pascual Agustin portraying a grandfather:

Even when he was quiet

his long fingers still on the thick

wooden ledge, we felt

the weight of his eyes

slowing down our marbles.


http://grandparents.about.com/od/booksaboutgrandparenting/gr/Grandparent-Poems-And-Stories-Featured-In-From-The-Porch-Swing.htm


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The poem is included in Alien to Any Skin (UST Publishing House, 2011).


 


 



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Published on July 04, 2012 08:12
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