Photo Journalist – The Garden in Winter – The Violets
Jeanne Bryner
Cortland, Ohio, USA
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The garden in winterRow upon row cover our garden. the maple’s shadow Faint smell drifts behind them. the man lifts a boy something rare and precious, Shoveling nine steps, With great effort the lab In cold white sand to his friend. you’re out too far; and I’m too winded to swim. |
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The violetsAcross our living room,
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JEANNE BRYNER, RN, BA, was born in Appalachia and grew up in Newton Falls, Ohio. A registered nurse, she is a graduate of Trumbull Memorial’s School of Nursing and Kent State University’s Honors College. She has received writing fellowships from Bucknell University, the Ohio Arts Council (’97, 07), and Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been adapted for the stage and performed in Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Kentucky, and Edinburgh, Scotland. She has produced a play, Foxglove Canyon, and her books in print are Breathless, Blind Horse: Poems, Eclipse: Stories, No Matter How Many Windows, Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated and Remembered and SMOKE: Poems, published by Bottom Dog Press. SMOKE: Poems received one of the 2012 American Journal Book of the Year Awards and Foxglove Canyon is being remounted for the North American Network on Aging Studies working retreat at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. She is currently working on a new manuscript, KILLDEER, from which these poems were selected.
Highlighted in Frontispiece Summer 2013 – Volume 5, Issue 3