Julie Hassett has been published in the Comstock Review, Philadelphia Poets, the Newport Review, Blueline, Naugatuck River Review and the DuPage Review. She won second prize in the Ocean State Poetry Contest and was included in the 2012 Poets Loft Anthology.
Her chapbook, Silent Passages, is part of the Premier Poets Series.
She practices as a social worker in North Kingstown, RI, often using therapeutic writing in her work.
► Julie's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.
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{mooblock=View from the Gazebo}
Weariness drifts over the brindled lawn
around purple tips of crocuses clusters of bulbs hidden in a crust of soil. She wonders when she will travel beyond the stone wall that encloses her garden and what she will find there. Bright tails flick the skin of water. Circles fan outward bend the reflection of a weeping cedar that ripples, green-gold and fragile calming soon to a deeper stillness.
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Julie Hassett © 2012
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{mooblock=Blessed Be}
for snow and no Sunday service, flakes
falling on my fourteen year old’s tongue all the stubborn, cutting words thawing in her mouth as she begs me to come, she’ll make the perfect snow angel, just needs someone to pull her up so the shape will be crisp in the Christmas light, the yard soon full of her flailing limbs, all grin and chuckle. Ten years melt from her with eyes that gleam brighter than Venus in the night sky rising.
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Julie Hassett © 2010
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{mooblock=Keeping Time}
April, May, June, July, I turn
the pages, August, he is gone, camera, cap, photos, packed beneath his college bunk far beyond my sight, dirty sock sweaty shirt boy smell fades, September, October, the room is neat, a new coat of paint, his artwork framed on the wall, I flip the weeks back to March, paints, canvass, ink, slingshot strewn across his spread in a pile
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Julie Hassett © 2010
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