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POETRY

“Asters painted on a mason jar,” read by Becky Parker.

Asters painted on a mason jar

to resemble those growing in
a field near the old barn.

An abstract attempt to capture the magic
of petals moving in the wind
on the backdrop of a late summer’s eve.

Of splashes in the creek, watching
horses being chased by butterflies;

a touch of Eden without the forbidden
fruit; but a knowledge of good and
evil remains.

Beauty from the Creator
of all good things;
who forms the curvature
of brim, and teaches
the wren to sing.

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Becky Parker resides in Tennessee. Her works can be found in Spirit Fire Review, Agape Review, Sweety Cat Press, Yellow Mama, Appalachia Bare, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Pulse, the Rye Whiskey Review, the Potato Soup Journal, the Green Shoe Sanctuary, Amaranth Journal, Spire Light, Avocet, Mackenzie’s Publication, Salvation South and upcoming in North Dakota Quarterly and Mildred Haun Review. In 2022, she was nominated for the Pushcart prize by Sequoyah Cherokee Journal. In 2023, she won the Tennessee Mountain Writers’ Children’s Literature Award.

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