From the Mountains of the Sun

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The Pole and I

The Pole and I

A Prose Poem and Some Haiku

A. Christine Myers
Feb 12, 2024
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I began this first piece as free verse, then had to set it aside for a few weeks. When I came back to it, it was suddenly clear that, with a little alteration and some development, it would be much more effective as a prose poem… indeed, that it actually was a prose poem, just not completed or fleshed out yet.

So I made the alterations and continued to …

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