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Francine Walls
NOVELIST & POET


For Encouragement
who could not be her body magical as fog rising in wisps among the grasses playing dress-up laughing wrapping herself in parachute silk...


Departure
His scent lingers near his bedroom door, I sniff the air – a startled deer – then feel his absence in the molted room. #DeathValley...


The Folly
and studying Chaucer in Swansea with students from Llanelli or Carmarthen or Merthyr Tydfil, I would hear the cleaning woman who chatted...


Samples of Stitching April 8, 1935
Her expertise shines in examples of the French seam, the hemmed felled seam, the mitered corner and the bias facing. Each sample pinked...


Farewell
I am turned to ash I want you knowing that I hear your footfalls in the ancient forest, the scream of hawks, the water crazy-mad flowing...
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