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reading the poets

Ellen Grace Olinger

reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return

Ellen Grace Olinger

SMILE, 2010

Reprinted: They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).

Published by Ellen Grace Olinger

"He hath made every thing beautiful in his time..." From Ecclesiastes 3:11a (KJV).