Breath
by Carol Dorf
Those automatic days
where breath is background
and we ignore details of oxygen’s ways.
Those automatic days
when a walk to the corner becomes praise
as the child hands us jewels she’s found.
Those automatic days
where breath is background.
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Carol Dorf's poems have been published in "Runes," "Five Fingers Review," "New Verse News," "The NeoVictorian," "Caprice," "Poetica," "Coracle," and elsewhere. She's taught in a variety of venues including as a California Poet in the Schools, at Lawrence Hall of Science, and at a large urban high school. She is a cancer survivor and found the Triolet form and other gifts during her recovery. Dorf lives in Berkeley, California with her husband, her daughter and two calico kittens.
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