Barbara Turney

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Barbara Turney Wieland is a 50+ visual artist and a poet who also dabbles in short story. She began writing at 45, unable to put to off any longer.Her poems have been published Narrow Road, Poetry Quarterly, Jazz Cigarette and Crannòg , to name a few. She is a member of the Geneva Writer’s Group.

         Celeste

She peels the sky like

a still-green apple

roses blooming impatiently elsewhere

 she wanted the morning

to hear her laughter

to let it paint the aurores

but here the dawn is still black

she feeds juicy quarters to the moon

and calls him lover

and he cloaks them both in silver

                       until the dawn ripens

             Origami

All the words we said

to each other

folded into birds

winged away

 only the flavor of them

remains

on hands and skin

stains my tongue and lips and

every word I say to others

only what matters

is your absence

this silence and

the birdsong in the distance

distracting me

from other tasks

piling up

like laundry



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