Janice D. Soderling
was awarded first prize in Glimmer Train Short Fiction competition, summer 2006 and was finalist in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters competition 2007. Her poetry is currently on-line at Innisfree, Barefoot Muse, Loch Raven Review, Lucid Rhythms and Shit Creek Review.
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About Writing
In another attempt to identify the source,
the old hurt is unearthed, the shards exposed
to the contemporary air; as an archaeologist
patiently brushes, measures, guesses, we lift
the artifact from the soil of forgetfulness,
classifying the find, labeling it, putting it
on display for incurious eyes; a cryptic pattern
reassembles, this buckle, this button, this bed mat,
a broken flute, the skull of a man, the hand
of a woman, unfleshed; almost, but never quite,
we recreate the lost moment when the whole
was greater than the sum of its fractured parts.
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