Maureen Kingston

Pentimento

First anniversary. The couple hold hands, stare groundward. Pine needles, asters, boxelder bugs. Marble ledge, stuffed tiger, choo-choo. Stonemason, chisel, SON.

blood moon
a daughter howls
into being

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About the Author

Maureen Kingston’s poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Akitsu Quarterly, Drifting Sands, Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu, Frogpond, Gyroscope Review, Inks Sweat and Tears, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Poetry Pea Journal, Prune Juice Journal of Senryu & Kyoka, Maudlin House, tsuri-dōrō, and Unbroken Journal.

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