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Francine Walls
NOVELIST & POET


In the dream
There is no end to the darkness above my face – the darkness, moonless and without stars. Below me, a small mound of palest light fits...


Childhood
The Ice-Cream Man in the little truck playing “Bicycle Built for Two” speeds up as I run out of my house wallet in hand with ice-cream...
InterPlay Journal, Friday morning May 30, 2014
Krista was the InterPlay Leader for the morning. She had just returned from Paris and Provence so we did “walk, stop, runs” to French...


At the Poetry Festival
The drums come from the back of the band the rhythm Jamaican the poet drifts to the microphone: “I killed a cowboy today I didn’t...


Wing Span
In this sweet curve of time we fly south, over the up-lifted earth of the Sierra Nevadas, gray-green forests brown where fire touched...
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