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Corinne Walsh – Finding Solace in Penn’s Cave

Knowing grief finds its end in silence

not sorrow

                                                                    like love with no home,

                                                                    an emptiness   

                                                                    more solid than bone


loss melts slowly like the ice caps

but can outlive the cold,


                                                                       we seek an ancient destination

                                                                       and traverse alone.

                                                                       Wandering.


Sinking.

                                              Drifting

                                                                       down into Penn’s cave,

                                                                       450 feet below

                                                                       the grazing buffalo,

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among strangers

we are passengers in a flat bottom boat

adrift where the darkness illuminates

the blissful secrets of mineral life so deep, the dark coolness

                                                                     conjures up

                                                                     only a silent secret

                                                                     joy.

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Corinne Walsh is a teacher and an editor, and now a poet in progress. Her work has appeared in SIXFOLD Summer 2023, The Bluebird Word, eunoia review, and Abandoned Mine. She also won First Place in The Tomahawk Review summer 2023 poetry competition. Her first chapbook, THE BOOK OF LU (March 2022), was a collaborative effort with photographer LuAnne Underhill focused on the complexities of love and long-distance relationships. Her writing has come later in life and couldn't have come at a better time.

Artwork: Blue Sky Orbs by Wendy Hess

Wendy Hess is from Berkeley California, USA. As an Artist, Photographer and Author, she enjoys the Gothic, Classic, Humorous, Magic, and Bizarre side of Life. Her work has been featured in Cauldron Anthology, Seaborne, Floresta, Acropolis Journal, Lavender Bones, Nymph Magazine, and Disability In Fairytales And Folklore.

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