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I'd like to walk in maple woods, - Weebly.com
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Thanks for asking. Ok . . . if I am lucky,
I’ve got 20-30 years left. But the question seems odd to me now. Strange, planning was my career. I’d like to walk in maple woods, stop to lift a leafy pulpit for a look at Jack. Suck a stem of sassafras, crumble mint leaves in my pocket. Smell coffee beans poured like tropical rain into the whir and grind at the roastery. Tag passages in poetry books that make me tear up. How about I sketch a slipper orchid with blue India ink? How about I listen to you? |
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Heather Saunders Estes's debut book of poetry, Inner Sunset, was published by Blue Light Press and is available online. It celebrates the joy of life, the natural and human-made world, recognizing all must change. For her, poems are incantations to push back against the forces, human and inhuman, that turn our eyes away from the beauty of shivering aspen leaves, joy of whales breaching, and the compassion of hugs. Her second book, Cloudburst, was published in 2021 by Poetic Matrix Press. She lives in the Inner Sunset in San Francisco and is a member of the OLLI at SF State poetry group that has been meeting since 2016. You can see some of her work online at: https://heathersaundersestes.com/
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Vistas & Byways Review is the semiannual journal of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by members of Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State University.
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Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at San Francisco State University (OLLI at SF State) provides communal and material support to theVistas & Byways volunteer staff.
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