In recognition of Poetry Month, and to celebrate our treasure trove of Orcas Island poets, Orcas Issues is pleased and honored to offer daily poetry during April.

51 YEARS OF EVENINGS
— by Carla Stanley —

On a crow black night
dependency on doorknobs turn to shutting things
out

my heart matter was curled up good bookish next
to a fire of comrades while

sitting in a doorway of my very own life convicted
to serve out the sentence

the moon light rose colored from its eastern bed went
falling love to the arms of
day

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