Spring Fragment
Faith is just one garland—
Here I am, so slight in your arms.
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Julia Knowlton's micropoetry
Julia Caroline Knowlton’s 2004 memoir, entitled _Body Story_, was favorably reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly and was named an outstanding title by the American Library Association. She is currently writing her second memoir, a chapter of which is forthcoming in SpillWords (9/23/16). She holds an Academy of American Poets College prize. She is a college professor at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta.
Micro Ars Poetica
Crow flight imprints song upon paper of air.
Inside the once-forgotten courtyard
We see the Image being torn.
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Daughter’s Heartache
Eighteen and betrayed. He lied.
She cannot eat or sleep.
I will go to her and feed her and
Tell her to breathe deep.
It will be good. It will not be enough.
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Your Anger
Why must you wave both fists of lead in the air?
All the bits of bone have been thrown into thunder.
I’m just a bird deep in a grove, with tiny gold feet.
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Micro Ars Poetica
Crow flight imprints song upon paper of air.
Inside the once-forgotten courtyard
We see the Image being torn.
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice
You leave me no choice:
When you embrace me so heavily
My body becomes a cross.
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