Monday
and planning
the week
what will grow
what should rest
Ellen Grace Olinger
WestWard Quarterly, Fall 2016

Ellen Grace Olinger
Monday
and planning
the week
what will grow
what should rest
Ellen Grace Olinger
WestWard Quarterly, Fall 2016
early morning
light on an old painting
in a new place
by Ellen Grace Olinger
Published by hedgerow: a journal of small poems, #136, 2021, edited by Caroline Skanne. Reprinted at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.
good to create
when we can
sometimes more
sometimes less
every year different
poems we read
again and again
washing an old plate
the pattern still new
winter soon
plans to read
and write poetry