Ama Reynolds, USA

Ama lives two minutes from the Atlantic Ocean. A professional copywriter by day, she is currently working on a memoir, as well as a poetry collection.

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  • Everyone Knows You’re Going to Live

    Ama Reynolds, USA

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    (So you might as well start trying. – Regina Spektor)

    You can choose your own adventure.
    Life is difficult.
    Happy families are all alike, Ishmael.
    I sing the song of myself - why
    Is the measure of love, loss?

    Flip it. There are a thousand turns.
    More. Take a self-help book off
    The shelf. Or read the one by
    Lorrie Moore. Moore’s is better
    Than all of them.

    Don’t be a writer, she says. If you can
    Be anything else, anything else at all,
    Just do it. You won’t regret it.

    Some of us are not so lucky. That’s

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  • Grandma Gerry

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    Grandma Gerry, when I forget how much I miss you, when I think of you instead of me, I daydream about your heaven and what might be there. There would be lots of yummy, no-longer-dangerous cigarettes, sweet and satisfying. And rose gardens - red roses, pink, yellow, white and red red red.

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  • The Seashell

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    Oh, how the years pass - so quickly. The days, the weeks, the months, the hours. How did I get here?

    In Jacksonville, Florida, outside of an office, the roar of the highway sounds like ocean waves - the rush you hear when you put a big seashell to your ear.

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  • Sight, Memory (With Apologies to Nabokov)

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    What is light? What is light within? What is light within light? Stillness becoming alive, yet still? A lively understandable spirit once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. - Theodore Roethke

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  • Upon Awakening on a Weekday Morning at Three-Years-Old

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    We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot.

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