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How to Write Poems About Your Family:

Terri Linn Davis Poetry

Mine trauma like coal. Be a pitman: tunnel
as a naked mole rat; scamper to those inky-
beds pickaxe in hand. What can you offer
if not that black diamond? Excavate by feel, 
your past an immense swamp-forest of ferns, 
reeds, and mosses—marvel at what has died 
and fallen in; cull debris from this thick layer
of rot, and bear it to the surface.     Light it:
rake and rake the coals, until everyone sees.

About Terri Linn Davis
Terri Linn Davis is an MFA Candidate for Poetry and the Assistant Editor of Noctua Review at Southern Connecticut State University where she teaches first-year writing. She is the recipient of the Jack and Annie Smith Poets and Painters Award (2018). Her poems appear in Orson’s Review, Ghost City Review and Persephone's Daughters Literary Magazine. She lives in Milford, Connecticut with her partner, Adam and their two sons. You can find her on twitter @TerriLinnDavis or on her website www.terrilinndavis.com

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