Alice knew
where
all the bodies were buried.
Their secrets lay smoldering
inside the top of a rusty old wheelbarrow
the receipts
the utility bills with the blacked out digits
the old headlines, family portraits
the sooty fingerprints
carefully smudged.
She exhaled wrapping her arms tightly
around her
for the moment they were safe
but what should she do about the jabberwocky?
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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