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Karla Linn Merrifield, holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from SUNY College at Brockport.   Her poetry has appeared in Earth’s Daughters, Negative Capability, Blueline, Paper Street Press, Boatman’s Quarterly Review, and Mediphors, and the anthologies 2004  Sacred Stones and Doorways:  Families, Friends and Survivors of September 11^th Reflect on Living with Loss.  Her new book, Midst, was published by Foothills Publishing last September.  

Karla Linn Merrifield

Manna

I cannot dream a feast
without the river,
its forks & catfish,
its shores & steam
rising on cool summer mornings.
No meat, nothing sweet & green,
no surprise of wild raspberries
can nourish me like swift currents
do or quiet shallows, all with soft edges.
I am sustained going after the bones
to the marrow, tasting time slowly
with a river.

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