Article voiceover
said an attractive young person,
unsolicited, at the Hobart
Festival of Women Writers
my favorite writers festival ever,
started by two writing sisters
Breena and Cheryl Clarke.
I teach Good Stories
every year, six hour intensive,
and every single person
stays awake for the entire time.
The poems are Old School
said the attractive young person,
who’d leafed through
my poetry book
God is a Tree.
There is no God anymore
this person said.
Although you could
probably make a good argument
for trees.
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The certainty of youth. “I’m younger than that now.”
I wholeheartedly agree with her!