3 poems by Marc Isaac Potter

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Pairs of little bare feet
Running across the Kentucky Bluegrass,
 
Children laugh as they run,
Showing off their new Easter clothes.
 
Pappa pops a beer
In the hot pool and chugs this one too.
Momma is in the house
Peeling carrots while Auntie
Cleans in another part of the house.
 
All is being readied
For the disaster.
 
 


 
Water Song
 
The water
 
Drop
 
Let.    Itself.
 
Be water.
 
Then falls.
  
Through the gutter
 
To the waiting earth.




 
Shopping Cart

Early morning hours, 
The cold hours before sunrise. 
An old man in need of a clean shave 
Pushes his shopping cart
Past an old woman
in need of love.

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Marc Isaac Potter (we/they/them) is a differently abled writer living in the SF Bay Area. His interests include blogging by email and Zen. They have been published in Fiery Scribe Review, Feral A Journal of Poetry and Art, Poetic Sun Poetry, and Provenance Journal.   

Twitter: @marcisaacpotter

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Published by darcie friesen hossack

Darcie Friesen Hossack is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers. Her short story collection, Mennonites Don’t Dance, was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Award, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Ontario Library Association's Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Adult Fiction. Citing irreverence, the book was banned by the LaCrete Public Library in Northern Alberta. Having mentored with Giller finalists Sandra Birdsell (The Russlander) and Gail Anderson Dargatz (Spawning Grounds, The Cure for Death by Lightening), Darcie's first novel, Stillwater, will be released in the spring of 2023. Darcie is also a four time judge of the Whistler Independent Book Awards, and a career food writer. She lives in Northern Alberta, Canada, with her husband, international award-winning chef, Dean Hossack.

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