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Sara Orange Tip

You could have folded like a paper

triangle, and slipped naturally

into death’s pocket--

if you weren’t so beautiful.

June’s mustard fields and streams

still wait for you. Verbena’s purple
bloom

has missed your touch. Who captured

you in mid-flight

and pinned you to this board,

forcing you to fly throughout the ages

with your elegance exposed?

~ Karen Kelsay grew up near the Pacific, and
loves writing poetry about the sea.  At
the same time, she has written narrative, romantic, and fairy-theme poems that
were created with other backgrounds and foreign lands in mind.
She attended college in Anchorage, Alaska, and
studied art and history, then devoted much time to traveling, for leisure, and
the sake of gathering impressions, for writing poetry. Her first book, Collected
poems, was published in June 2008, and a chapbook titled “A Fist of Roots” will be published this year by Puddinghouse
Press.  She lives with her husband in
Torrance, just a short distance from the beach, where she still looks for
writing subjects and inspirations.

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