Cathedral
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cathedral of trees
your prayer
and mine
[Twilight grove]
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Spring Night (near Boulder, Colorado)
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whose idea
this blackened sky
a moon
missing
like a heartbeat
[Prairie tree]
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[Lily pads]
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what was it
you wanted to say
summer drizzle
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do you see my eyes?
the clouded river
runs
into a night
of ink
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find me
i am the fragrance
the flower couldn’t keep
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who am i
without you
i watch
this moment become
the slow color of rain
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[White rose]
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[Three finches]
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a streak of silver
in my hair
runaway star
[Penguins in bloom]
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[Table by the window]
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she wasn’t always broken
some days
the flowers faced the sun
[Hydrangeas]
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[Fall foliage]
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the neighbor’s dogs
i fire up
my indignation
[Snow trees]
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The Rocky Mountains, Colorado
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laundry day
my new jeans
the color of midnight
Bio: An Mayou
—Micro-poems and visual artworks above are copyrighted © by An Mayou, and
appear here with her permission. All were reproduced from her Facebook (FB) galleries,
and the following credit-list includes dates that the works were posted to FB:
- Cathedral: 23 May 2014
- Poem, “cathedral of trees”: 7 July 2016
- [Twilight grove]: 3 September 2018
- Spring night (near Boulder, Colorado): 7 April
2016
- Poem, “whose idea”: 27 July 2018
- [Prairie tree]: 18 January 2018
- [Lily pads]: 12 December 2017
- Poem, “what was it”: 15 May 2018
- Poem, “do you see my eyes?”: 29 December 2017
- Poem, “find me”: 14 July 2018
- Poem, “who am i”: 5 February 2018
- [White rose]: 26 February 2018
- [Three finches]: 8 September 2014
- Poem, “a streak of silver”: 18 February 2018; previously published
in tinywords (21 December 2015)
- [Penguins in bloom]: 8 February 2018
- [Table by the window]: 4 February 2018
- Poem, “she wasn’t always broken”: appears on page iii of the
Introduction in Fragments: Ancient and Modern Poetry, edited by Blue
Flute (New York, 2012)
- [Hydrangeas]: 17 February 2018
- [Fall foliage]: 25 October 2013
- Poem, “the neighbor’s dogs”: 3 January 2018
- [Snow trees]: 26 December 2017
- The Rocky Mountains, Colorado: 2 January 2018
- Poem, “laundry day”: 2 May 2018
- Self-portrait: 8 September 2016
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lives in Colorado with her daughter and her cat. Her training is in visual
art, which she often combines with short-form poetry. Follow her on
Facebook, where she frequently posts her visual art and writing prompts,
and read her tiny poems at Twitter Micropoets:
http://twitter.com/perlygates
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Self-Portrait © by An Mayou. All rights reserved.
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