Julie A. Dickson
Julie A. Dickson has written poetry for over 50 years, has served on two poetry boards, has served as a guest editor for several journals, coordinated 100 Thousand Poets for Change for 5 years and her work appears often in publications including Medusa's Kitchen, Blue Heron Review, Open Door, Misfit, MasticadoresUSA, Ekphrastic Review and Uppagus. She has authored YA fiction books including "Bullied into Silence" [Piscataqua Press] and Poetry books, the latest being "Village Girl" [Goldfish Press]. Dickson holds a BPS in Behavioral Science, advocates for captive elephants and shares her home with two rescued semi-feral cats.
PoetryCowboy Coffee
I dreamed she got a tattoo my mother [didn’t even approve of tattoos] on her back she lowered her robe for me to see…
PoetryEpiphany
The gossip always the latest – if you want to know, she’s the one, you needn’t ask, she’ll just tell but; one day she…
PoetryKnown by Many Names
Gaia speaks as Mother Earth, whispers softly to her child Child answers Isis, goddess of trees and forests wild Pachamama swaddles babe and holds…
PoetryJar Light, Starlight
Running through tall grasses glass jar in hand, cover off – I can still detect a faint scent of peanut butter wafting up. He…
PoetryShut Up, Siri
No one asked you. My phone suddenly speaks in a mostly quiet room. “I’m sorry, I didn’t quite get that” Everyone looks at me…
Poetry30 mph and Henry Cain
of Cain’s Mayonnaise, circa 1975 Powder blue Porsche both delicate and racy for small town roads speed limit sign, 30 miles per hour certainly…
PoetryI need
mounds of paper, pens that never run out of ink to write, write watch squirrels bend low branches, bend not break, my back bends…
PoetryHow Long
I may have been a child once I cannot recall young legs, bright cheeks, smooth skin - mirror reflects truth, aged tired eyes, silver…
PoetrySoaked as I am
Luck is that way rain falls over picnic dropped vase, water dribbles ankles, floor slippery, rivulets run driveway cracks, car has a new dent…
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