Hello Annanisa by Karen Kelsay

The Sisters - Art Print
Baxter, Charles
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I found you one summer
in a genealogy book
pressed between two siblings
like a forget-me-not

The beauty of your name
caused me to linger
on the page

Sparrow
on a hidden limb
I heard your quiet song

When you shook your hair
a ribbon rolled
over my arm
and tied us together

BIO: Native Californian (US), Karen Kelsay has had poems appear in the Christian Science Monitor, The Avocet, The Shepherd, Ken Again, The Storyteller, Munyori Poetry Journals, Oasis Magazine, and The Pregnant Moon. Growing up along the Pacific Ocean, Karen developed a keen love for poetry and the sea. Describing her own poetry work she says, "I would be hard-pressed to single out my favorite poets, and by no means has my poetry been influenced by anyone in particular, but I lean toward the traditional forms." Her recent anthology, "Collected Poems," is now available through BarnesandNoble.com and Amazon.com.
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