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A Person Worth Knowing

Dawn Leas

From the book:

Waiting for the Senior Center Bus

Her body is a balloon

dressed in a grey down coat

on top of short legs thick

like tree trunks.

Every weekday, she leans

against a fire hydrant

curving into a comma

a caesura on daily life

to peer down an empty street.

Her round, frowning face,

an emoticon,

begging someone to come along

and ask who she once was.

 

Dawn Leas is the author of Take Something When You Go (Winter Goose Publishing 2016), and I Know When to Keep Quiet (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. In past lives, she has been a copywriter, English teacher and worked in higher-education. Currently, she’s a writing coach and teaching artist for Arts in Education NEPA and the Philadelphia Arts in Education Program, partner organizations of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. She’s a proud back-of-the pack runner, newbie hiker, salt-water lover, and mom of two grown sons. For more information, please visit www.thehammockwriter.com.

A Person Worth Knowing

is a 44 page hand-stitched chapbook - $10.00

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