Patrice Boyer Claeys graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Manchester, U.K., and completed a Certificate in Poetry from the Writer's Studio of the University of Chicago. Her first collection, "Lovely Daughter of the Shattering," was published by Kelsay Books in 2019.Forthcoming work: Literary Mama, Pirene’s Fountain and Aeolian Harp Anthology 5.
Her second collection, "The Machinery of Grace," is due from Kelsay Books in 2020. She was twice nominated for Best of the Net. Find her at www.patriceboyerclaeys.com.
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My Words Come Back
I believe there is something else,
a part of ourselves always groping blindly down a page, saying what is true, a language thick with conviction that waits, trips at the door of grace.
Cento Sources: Gail Goepfert, •
In the end
her heart was red as anything— that old metaphor, that perfect word. This, and my heart beside.
Cento Sources: Olena Kalytiak Davis, Dorothea Lasky, Richard Wilbur,RIta Dove, Emily Dickinson
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Life Lesson Keep your hand rounded as if it held a peach something in its pink, the exact shade— an answer to memory's soft slippage.
Cento Sources: Philip Dacey, Erin Belieu, •
Renewal
It is spring and I am capable of anything.
From the confusing higgledy-piggledy, chaos is what I see. Thank God some things stay the same— blue, the most grateful color, so confusingly beautiful that it makes itself into a new life.
Cento Sources: Bianca Stone, Mitch Suskind, • Patrice Boyer Claeys © 2019 |
