January - February 2010 | Through the Looking Glass


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Writings

My texture is changing by Patricia Wellingham-Jones

My texture is changing
The elastic form
sags in sundry places
Brown spots appear
overnight and stay
Silver glints more often
in light brown hair
and the steady march
develops a slight plod
Inside this changing form
space expands
Swirls around molecules
allows recognition of other dreams
other ways of being

Patricia Wellingham-Jones has a longtime interest in ‘healing writing’ and the benefits people gain from writing and reading their work together. Chapbooks include Don’t Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer, Voices on the Land, and End-Cycle, poems about caregiving.

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