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Renée Owen

Glory Song

Her tomatoes some green and hard or so red and ripe you want to eat right off the vine tearing into them with your dog teeth juice dripping down your face spilling on your white keds just out of the wash big gobbing drips filled with little seeds and the taste of summer rolling off your tongue cold Dr. Pepper butter on cobs MawMaw and the mountain ridges the valleys blue as a heart singing home, home.

turtle pond
the gold light
free-falling

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About the Author

Renée Owen’s award-winning books include This One Life (Backbone Press), Alone On A Wild Coast (Snapshot Press), and Scent of the Past. . . Imperfect (Two Autumns Press).