Libby Falk Jones
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About
It’s about amazement,
and sound and smell,
coffee dark and thick,
words I didn’t know,
bubbling up the clear
column, it’s about
the photos Daddy took,
my eyes huge under wisps
of golden hair, my mouth
a dark circle of wonder,
it’s about Mama’s rich voice,
telling me the percolator
story, telling me again,
it’s about the way
she gave me myself,
invented me, that great
gift of her life, it’s about
the way her words,
my face, that amazement
still move in me
and on this page.
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Libby Falk Jones teaches creative, critical, and professional writing at Berea College, where she is Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities and Professor of English. Her chapbook is Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue, (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Her poems have been published in regional and national journals and anthologies, including Appalachian Heritage, New Millennium Writings, PMS poemmemoirstory, Blue Fifth Review, Ruminate, New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writing, and Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. She is at work on two poetry collections and is currently enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing program at Eastern Kentucky University.
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