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Oasis

Jul 31
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by Anna Marie Kinkead


Massive tan boulders stacked in a desert landscape with sparse grasses under a pale overcast sky.
Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

Amidst all the chaos

there should have been a boundary

A small wall, a few rocks,

or just a handwritten sign

to protect the space of childhood

A place to just be





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Black-and-white close-up selfie of a smiling woman with long light hair, against a patterned wall and dark background.
Anna Marie Kinkead

Anna Marie Kinkead loves all that is authentic and that speaks to the reality of lived human experience. Her book reviews have appeared in the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. Recently, her creative work has appeared in Down in the Dirt, Wildfire Words, Verse-Virtual, The Khaotic Good and Spillwords. She is currently exploring writing as therapy, distilling what is raw and real, and as a tool for understanding discordance within ourselves.

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