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Yvonne Morris

Yvonne Morris is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Busy Being Eve (Bass Clef Books) and Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including ONE ART, The Galway Review, The Swannanoa Review, Griffel, and elsewhere. She lives in Kentucky.

“Spring Leaning,” “Potato Soup,” “Any Old Two-Lane Won’t Do”

Thick ice in the driveway’s pothole thaws.
Three birds discover the puddle. I watch
from my warm, mouse-colored sofa as
they flop and shriek, bouncy in the frigid…
Poetry

“Busy Being Eve,” “Bright Highway” and “A Sort-of Sonnet for the Night In”

She drowns on the sofa for two weeks. But each day she makes herself rise and wobble to the kitchen for water, a bite of toast. The blistering pain in her pneumonia-filled lungs causes her to grab the counter as if it’s an overturned boat, yet she hangs on, gasping for dear life.
Poetry
Issue 57, January 2022
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Yvonne Morris

Yvonne Morris is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Busy Being Eve (Bass Clef Books) and Mother was a Sweater Girl (The Heartland Review Press). Her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including ONE ART, The Galway Review, The Swannanoa Review, Griffel, and elsewhere. She lives in Kentucky.

“Spring Leaning,” “Potato Soup,” “Any Old Two-Lane Won’t Do”

Thick ice in the driveway’s pothole thaws.
Three birds discover the puddle. I watch
from my warm, mouse-colored sofa as
they flop and shriek, bouncy in the frigid…
Poetry

“Busy Being Eve,” “Bright Highway” and “A Sort-of Sonnet for the Night In”

She drowns on the sofa for two weeks. But each day she makes herself rise and wobble to the kitchen for water, a bite of toast. The blistering pain in her pneumonia-filled lungs causes her to grab the counter as if it’s an overturned boat, yet she hangs on, gasping for dear life.
Poetry
Issue 57, January 2022
Issues Archive
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