Angela Valdes |
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The September First Selected Poet is Angela Valdes Please feel free to email Angela at: acain1839@gmail.com |
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DOLL IN THE WOODS A dingy doll whose eyes have long since gone where the snakes creep. Two hunters trudge in the dead of night Through the brush one hunter slices the silence They wander the woods in search of a trail The line of light scans through darkness Gun shots ring out as she flies off her perch, As he turns his back to face his friend, A riverbed of sediment pours MUMMIFIED IN MEMORY Ninety-four years ago, He couldn’t let go Like Briar Rose, she awaits BENEATH THE PINES I lie awake in frozen silence tented in thin nylon Your snore howled in unison with the wind. lost in that lonely layer Footsteps break their brittle bones a drum that no one can hear. Those who’ve passed before wander My lips sewn shut slides me slowly across— |
Angela Valdes is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She has also been published on The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology under her maiden name (Angela Cain) with a poem titled “Judgment Day.” Her work has also been published in The MUSED BellaOnline Literary Review with a non-fiction story titled “Absence of Her Jingling Bell.” She enjoys spending time at home with her husband and two dogs, Shadow and Corbin. To draw inspiration in her writing, she enjoys using realist situations as well as observances from the world around her to spin her work into something emotional and meaningful.
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