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Written by Pris Campbell   
Image by Emily Habermehl
Image by Emily Habermehl
Sometimes Sara feels like an orphan,
imagines herself raised by Nuns.
Her dead mother never did like
Sara's floppy hats, long hair,
calf-length skirts stitched with roses.
She wanted Sara's hair permed,
nails colored a proper pale pink.
Her older relatives used to say
Sara needed to find God, that she
surely would go straight to hell one day.
Sara figures God knows exactly
where he is and doesn't
need Sara to find him. 
Sometimes, though, she wishes
she still belonged somewhere. She wishes
she could see her mother again,
sit at their old kitchen table, feet
dangling, munching on fried chicken
and crowder peas. She misses
the family stories, her father
in the upstairs bath, shaving,
and the lighting bugs morse-coding
each other through darkening pines out back.
About the Author

The poetry of Pris Campbell has appeared in such journals as Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, Oranges & Sardines, Wild Goose Review, The Dead Mule, The Cliffs: Soundings, and numerous others. She has been featured poet in Empowerment4Women, In the Fray, and From East to West. She has published two poetry books, Abrasions (Rank Stranger Press) and Sea Trails, a full length book of poems, log notes, charts, and photos based on her sailing trip in 1977 on a 22-foot sailboat down the East coast (Lummox Press, released fall of 2009), as well as two chapbooks, Interchangeable Goddesses (with Tammy Trendle, published by Rose of Sharon Press) and Hesitant Commitments, which is part of Lummox Press's Little Red Book Series. Three nominations for a Pushcart Prize (2008 and 2009) have come her way. After living all over the country, including Hawaii, the Greater West Palm Beach, FL is now her home.

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Pris C said:

Thanks, Carly. It's a pleasure to be in your journal again.
March 29, 2010 | url

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