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Joan Spilman

Joan Spilman

Literary Women's and Appalachian Fiction and Fantasy Author

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    Month: October 2021

    VISION by Llewellyn McKernan, poet

    I breathe a perfume made just in time.

    October 31, 2021 by joanspilman

    CAN YOU DRAW, by Llewellyn McKernan

    Can you draw the sap from a wild cherry tree?

    October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 by joanspilman

    I SHOP FOR TODAY, by Llewellyn McKernan, poet.

    Everything we’ll ever know
    takes off it shoes, wiggles it toes

    October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 by joanspilman

    I WAKE, by Llewellyn McKernan

    . . . faith moves the world in a little wheelbarrow.

    October 23, 2021 by joanspilman

    SHE’S THE PUPPET, by Llewellyn McKernan

    She’s the puppet, but he’s on a string in this story of They Have Everything. He wears his pants a little too tight. She loves to be… Read more “SHE’S THE PUPPET, by Llewellyn McKernan”

    October 21, 2021 by joanspilman

    WHEN I SLEEP, by Llewellyn McKernan

    When Midnight comes,
    it’s saintly as the dog
    wading in the stream
    of the Very Odd.

    October 18, 2021October 19, 2021 by joanspilman

    This Angel, by Llewellyn McKernan

    This angel is a sweet young zebra-striped thing.

    October 17, 2021 by joanspilman

    I Know Jack the Ripper, by Llewellyn McKernan

    I know how to get and hold the blues.

    October 16, 2021 by joanspilman

    I MAKE THE BEDS, by Llewellyn McKernan

    . . . I break into crumbs that feed the birds, one by one.

    October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 by joanspilman

    THE TOE OF HER SHOE, by Llewellyn McKernan

    She once had a daughter.
    She once had a son.

    October 10, 2021October 11, 2021 by joanspilman

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