Al-Khemia Poetica: A Women's Arts and Writing Journal

  Valley Fire (September 2016) We are the last to set foot in this house, the last to sleep in this bed, to see these green trees. After we ...

  I Am an Elephant   I cry for the departed when I cross their slain carcasses on the road of our ancestors   I trumpet loud octagons in the...

  Leaving Home The next morning we’d have to take the ferry from Dover. The next morning I’d have to say goodbye to my kids. The next mornin...

Gossake, light, give ‘em some slack, Let rocks spring, and water see for herself- While you are at it, my light, go get  Some nice answers, ...

  Treading Balmy Liquid brain dissolved unable to remember  what day it is what pills to take a stroke another heart attack do the British t...

Surrender O n her lens a pair of wild weeds swayed from a rock by the edge of the lake blooming tips brushing as if in light kisses  a movin...

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