S. E Ingraham
As her memory cells degrade, she finds herself grasping for thoughts, ideas, recollections;
Begins to realize – she’s present tense, awash in despair, clinging to the vaguest notions of before.
© 2019 S. E Ingraham
S.E Ingraham pens poems from the lip of the Arctic Circle: Edmonton, Alberta. She likes to think it’s the latitude at which she writes that influences her work but concedes it might be her many experiences with the mental health community. She reports modest publishing success both online and in print, and continues to enjoy reading her work aloud. Her work can be viewed by Googling her name + poet – imagine!
Mike McDermott
I Ching Satisfaction
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© 2019 Michael McDermott
Mike McDermott has published poems in Bourgeon (online), Minimus, WordWrights!, phoebe, Cabin Fever (Idaho), The Federal Poet, Frantic Egg 4, and Rustlings; a short story in Minimus; and various non-fiction pieces. He is also included on the CD Poetry Alive at IOTA: The IOTA Poetry Series 10th Anniversary Reading. He has served on editorial boards of WordWrights! and GW Forum and was a manuscript reader for the Word Works Washington Prize poetry contest. He was an occasional guest host of the long-running IOTA Poetry series (Arlington, VA) and has been a featured reader and active participant in the Washington DC area poetry readings for several years. He has an MFA from George Mason University.
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
The dimensia poem, so sad… the I Ching poem. YES!!! I LOVE IT. Congratulations Mike McDermott. I also love the irony of a very short poem followed by a very long bio! We poets are something else…
It’s sooo good! Brilliant!
Mike, the utter simplicity of:
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Thank you, I loved it!
SE, your 2-line poem delivers a stomach punch that’s a whopper! I agree with Joan, you capture the sadness of dementia. I sigh re-reading. There’s richness and (reading) pleasure in the density of these words: present tense, awash in despair, clinging to the vaguest notions of before., Well done, SE!
The dementia poem speaks to so many. Thank you.