Martha Clarkson is a corporate designer and receives mail in Kirkland Washington.
She is a writer of poetry and fiction and is not adept at folding origami but glad to be part of this. Martha won best short story for Anderbo's 2012 contest and has notable mentions in "Best Non-Required Reading" two years in a row.
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► Martha's Origami microchap & selected poem are available below.
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Origami Microchap |
Selected Poem(s) |
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Cover: Jendrek's drawing of his First Communion
www.ijea.org
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Today I learned that poets
have shorter lifespans than the national average sixty-two is the figure – shorter, even, than all other writers which may be a case of shorter work shorter life or simply the average of ripe old Whitman, Frost with the young carnage of Sexton, Plath, and all the angst slit across the years. We can take up wheat farming
to reach eighty-six or carpentry for seventy-nine even barbering with those straight razors will buy a few more years us hiding in the back room trimming words into poems. •
Martha Clarkson © 2014
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