Marilyn J Wolf

Marilyn J Wolf has been writing since childhood. Internationally reviewed In Celebration of the Death of Faeries is her first chapbook. Presently, she is editing a second. Her work has been published in The Polk Street Review, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Haiku journal, Poet’s Choice, The Elevation Review, and Living Artistically; displayed in galleries at Nickel Plate Arts, Community Education Arts Online Showcase, Lost Dog Gallery, and the INverse Poetry Archive. She writes and edits regularly in a variety of publications at https://medium.com/@Wolfen25. She is a member of local, state, and national poetry organizations, currently an editor of The Howling Owl, and 1st VP of Poetry Society of Indiana.

Beauty at the Gym, Just a Little Lie & Love and War — were previously published on Medium.com

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► Marilyn Wolf's microchap & poem selections are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

Watching the World

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Marilyn J Wolf BioCVR Watching the World 2023

Cover: Image 1361766608 by MURRIRA (licensed by author

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Beauty at the Gym, Just a Little Lie &
Love and War— were previously
published on Medium.com

Beauty at the Gym

With shoulders like boulders
He smoulders and sweats
Doing chin-ups and one ups
Among other gym vets

His rises with
rhythm
timing
practiced repetition
The purr of an engine
A swan taking flight
A lover’s sunrise
A symphony of motion

Just a Little Lie

Blood Pain
Quick trip to the hospital
Hands in places I’d rather not share
Surgery
Procedure gone bad
More surgery
Pain meds Nurses
You can’t go home until you pee
Walking More walking
Husband walking with me
He helps me to the bathroom
A plan coalesces
He will pee for me
We’ll tell them I did it

I get to go home

Under false “pee”tenses

Togetherness

We want to be together
but
can't stand each other
--- or ourselves ---
when we are.

Waking Up

It's 4 a.m.

He's awake.

I made the mistake of moving.

He thought I was awake
so he talked to me.

Then I was.

Love and War

All is fair in

Love and War

and
Ours
was
such a

Lovely War

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