Poetry by Karen Poppy

​Kimmo Räisänen CC



Flow

As water through water

Be healing light and soothing
Darkness, flow

As wind flows, as
Clouds flow, carried 

By arctic gusts, tropical thermals
Open and release,

Bright awakening, shadowed
Contemplation

Flow as rain, as a loosened tail feather
To soft bed of earth

Be this gift on forest floor
Awaiting discovery

Release what no longer serves you
As water through water

Let this be.

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Karen Poppy has work published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her chapbooks CRACK OPEN/EMERGENCY (2020) and OUR OWN BEAUTIFUL BRUTALITY (2021) are both published by Finishing Line Press. Her chapbook, EVERY POSSIBLE THING, is published by Homestead Lighthouse Press (2020). An attorney licensed in California and Texas, Karen Poppy lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. https://karenpoppy.com/publications/
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