Helen Ruggieri

Helen Ruggieri's latest collection is The Kingdom Where No One Keeps Time, poems about losing and loss. She coordinates a workshop for writers for the African American Center for Cultural Development and a series for poetry readings and open mics called the Traveling Poetry Circus.

She lives in the largest city in Cattaraugus County, New York.

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► Helen's microchap & selected poems are available below. Download the microchap by clicking on the title.

Origami Microchap

White Crane Origami

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Helen Ruggieri CVR White Crane Origami 2018

Cover collage by Jan Keough

Every microchap

may be downloaded

for free

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(Set printer for landscape)

August 6th
we fold paper cranes
fifty each
for all the years passed
and kindle fire
add the cranes
one by one
messengers
pointing
in a thin gray column
a misshapen finger
taking what we knew
in our hands
when we folded

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II.

Along the river
migrating swans
settle into the nacreous water
ahead I see great white wings
fluttering, trying to rise
or so it appears
as nearsighted
I make paper
caught on driftwood
into the flight of birds

-stanza break-

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