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  Ode to a Turkey

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA

  Shall I compare thee to a chicken wing? Thou art more juicy and more carveable. Thick grease doth coat the ugly brown thing, And the treats endurement too short is not debatable. Sometime too gristly is the sticky bone, And often is its crispy skin uncrisp'd, And every wing takes time t...
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  Ten Fingers, Ten Toes

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA

  Ten fingers Ten toes, in my mind the ghost knows, my chest can fall, my chest can rise, but I can hear the infant cries, the man they were, the men I am Ten fingers Ten toes, in my heart the ghost knows. I fought for we, us lied to me. I can still hear the battle cry, in the tree...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Bad Dreams

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA

  Bad dreams are like dripping vines, wrapping and holding and leafing behind a fraught trail of tired tears, all over my arms, my legs, my mind....
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Actions of the Past (WWI)

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA

  No soldier fought that did not die, In heart, or mind, no man unharmed. All men the same under smoggy sky. Like bloody butchers death was farmed, No way to stop the loathsome harm. The recruiters did their work too well Propaganda’s unrelenting charm. The boom and crash of a distant shell ...
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  Scarred Wood

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA
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  Grey World

  

  By SophiaGilbert, Cambridge, MA