Laurinda Lind

on a withered vine
handfuls of grapes still alive
in the freezing rain

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cold weather cruisers
gunmetal gray clouds
ships above us

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their beautiful baby
soon after the wedding
but who’s counting 

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Laurinda Lind is a former journalist/ current caregiver in New York’s North Country, near Canada. Some of her writing is in Atlanta Review, The Heartland Review, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway. She is a Keats-Shelley Prize winner, and a Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net nominee. This is Laurinda’s first feature on The Short of It.

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Akhila Siva

resilient

bougainvillea seeds,
resilient and wild; they’ve
mastered the alters

concealed

The beats of ocean
buried in a dew as feels of
blue sky in a cloud

imperative

Strong are the roots
which are in a relation
with impenetrable rocks

detached

That dew on the leaf;
there, just ’cause it has to
not there, since shaken off

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Akhila is the founder and sole contributor of the two blogs – Words and Notion and
Quality Notion. She is a self motivated life long learner who loves to decode signs from the universe. She is the author of the General Knowledge book “Know them, One answer to many questions”. She tweets @wordsandnotion.

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