Concerning the Drops
I could sit quiet or lie
were it not for the arrow of retrospect.
The declaration in the sentence
was tidy enough
the space between the drops, thin
still, it was wide enough
to slip through
to slide through
to fly home
just damp.
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Cornelia DeDona
Author/Photographer, and native New Yorker, Cornelia is currently a
Member-At-Large of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii for thirty-six years. She makes her home in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online and 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 October 2015 her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League ofAmerican Pen Women’s Vinnie Ream contest was awarded the 3rd place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
Cornelia's books:
"Letters To A Prisoner" by Connie D. (Honorable Mention For Poetry in 2011 New York Book Festival) https://www.createspace.com/3512628
"Hawaiian Time" by Cornelia DeDona (Third Place Multi-Discipline inaugural Vinnie Ream Award)
https://www.createspace.com/5751889
"Meadow Pause" (out of print)
"Boogie Fever" (out of print)
"Meadow Pause Revisited" (e-book)
https://www.amazon.com/Meadow-Pause-Revisited-Connie-D/dp/1466366141
"Fire Dance" (e-book)
http://www.blurb.com/ebooks/215568-fire-dance
"Pasta Italiana" (a notebook with color photos of Murano and Burano) http://www.blurb.com/b/3697761-pasta-italiana
"Saturdays With Lillian" (An Anthology from my days at University of Hawaii's Windward Community College)
http://www.blurb.com/b/2006721-saturdays-with-lillian
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