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Kristine Grow staple-bound. 23 pp. $9.00 
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Kristine Grow’s poems have been published in various magazines, including The Schuylkill Valley Journal, The Aurelian, Ixnay, and American Writing. She has performed at venues that include The Fringe Festival, Bar Noir and Live at the Writer’s House in Philadelphia. She recently ran the Kristine Grow Poetry Workshop, one of Philadelphia’s longest-standing continuous workshops, which completed its fourth year in 2007. Today, she is teaching a poetry workshop with Cheltenham Adult School. In 2000, she published her first book, Long Draw. She holds a BA in English from Temple University. She resides with her family in Cheltenham, PA. Silver Sage Short-lived perennial. Leaves larger in basal rosette, silky, silver-hairy. …If cut down, will flower again in autumn. Wisdom past all learning, when understanding is instinctive as a hand that twitches at a bottle fly’s bite. Every line and furrow tells of times of greatest desperation. The sun traces the face’s shadows with a lover’s weathered kiss. Each sense confounds its original calling. Faces are seen through their voices. Food offers flavor only when another eats. Smell, more than cold, forecasts the coming of snow. Gnarled fingers master the gentlest caresses, the bowed head maps the predictable patterns of chaos. From the fire signs, ashes foretell the future. Rebuilding begins in air, with whispers and an affirmation. |