POETRY
Water
I owe my life
to water
I was made
of water
and salt
from earth
There was light
in the world
before it went
inside me
I am made
from the light
of stars and
everlasting water
John C. Mannone has recent poems in North Dakota Quarterly, Foreign Literary Review, and Le Menteur. He was awarded a Jean Ritchie Fellowship (2017) in Appalachian literature. He edits poetry for Abyss & Apex and other journals. A retired university physics professor, John lives between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee. http://jcmannone.wordpress.com
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