When all has been said

The long day is done.

Its last minutes walk me home.

Streetlights keep me on course,

dispel shadows that linger,

want to hold back, return to undo and redo

those final moments between us;

gaps filled with goodbyes I must leave alone.

Karen Pierce Gonzalez

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez

– It’s true: life is art. A continual coming together of elements; many unseen until ready. Until we are ready. Whether visual, kinetic, acoustic, verbal, we are always artist and audience. This blessed weave always moves us into the moment of seeing and being seen.

Her fiction, poetry, journalism, non-fiction, and short plays have received several awards and has appeared in numerous platforms, including Big Blend Magazine, BluePepper, Fringe of Marin Festival, Marin Independent Journal, Pandemic Puzzle Poems, Riverbed Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Postcard Poems and Prose, Visual Verse. Chapbooks: True North (Origami Poems Project), Coyote In the Basket of My Ribs (Alabaster Leaves). Forthcoming: Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press).