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Days of Soup and Holler
ORDER OF POEMS
Section One: Take One
- She Saw Elephants
- Before the Rebellion
- Picnic Tree (Away at Boarding School)
- Growing up in a Castle
- Prodigal Daughter
- But What of the Other Mothers
- My Life Story in Music
- Leaving
- Lila Fae Hancock (Single Days)
Section Two: Then Came Love – Married Life
- I am woman, Dance Me!
- Narnia Today
- Sit Yourself DOWN Girl (Momentary Madness of owning a Harley)
- Soundtrack: We all wish we had one! (Written when I was mad at my husband and somehow talking in a Southern Accent made me forget)
- Bared Claws
- Strengthen me with Raisins
- Every Other Breath I Take
- Benediction
- “I Will Not Pretend That My Hands Don’t Work”
- Toward Paper, Toward Pen
- The High Holy Now (I had to pull this one out at a Poetry Slam for the WIN when the poet with a score closest to mine had gotten straight 10’s in the second round – it still makes blush.)
Section Three: Wild, Crazy Children
- “Warm Chocolate Milk, Not Hot, Warm!”
- Secrets for a Mommy’s Soul
- As Loud as my Fingers Can Snap
- This Much I Know
- I was a Dark Storm Cloud
- Hot Tears Fall into the Freshly Cleaned Commode
- The Turtles have Left the Building
- Wrestling with Night
- Boomerangs for Sale
- Christmas in Deep Freeze
- Say Yes
- Great and Simple Images that Open our Hearts
- Superstar
- Constantly Knocking Over the Teacups
- There are Pillars
- I Have Been Waiting my Whole Entire Life for this Moment!
- The Stories of our Lives
- Here’s to Hilarious Late-Night Snacking
- The Resistance will Speak French
- Pot. Kettle. Black.
- This May Backfire
- You are All This and Then Some
- Mothers
- Brains on Fire
- Stay
Section Four: A Poet Peeks Out at the World
- Days of Soup & Holler
- A $68.9 Million Dollar Modigliani Painting and a Homeless Man
- All this Talk of Rosemary and Religion
- Ferocious Calm
- Metronome
- Braille Bible
- Hallelujah
- She Thought, Perhaps, Azalea
- Restored
- Be Askew
- The Beauty of a Strong, Silent Shoulder of Solace
- Rebels
- The Painting that Broke my Heart Wide Open
Section Five: Finding Home in a Community of Writers
- Poem to Young Poets
- As Trees are Born to Bear Leaves
- My Poet Heart
- My Quiet Place, My Still, Oh Where?
- Sink Down Deep
- The Secret Life of Words
- This Page
- Wonder at the Whimsy of Others
- Craft
- Once a Black Sheep
- Grace Falls