Libby Falk Jones 

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About


It’s about amazement, 
and sound and smell,
coffee dark and thick, 
words I didn’t know, 
bubbling up the clear 
column, it’s about 
the photos Daddy took, 
my eyes huge under wisps
of golden hair, my mouth 
a dark circle of wonder, 
it’s about Mama’s rich voice, 
telling me the percolator 
story, telling me again, 
it’s about the way 
she gave me myself, 
invented me, that great 
gift of her life, it’s about 
the way her words, 
my face, that amazement 
still move in me
and on this page.


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Libby Falk Jones teaches creative, critical, and professional writing at Berea College, where she is Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities and Professor of English. Her chapbook is Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue, (Finishing Line Press, 2010). Her poems have been published in regional and national journals and anthologies, including Appalachian Heritage, New Millennium Writings, PMS poemmemoirstory, Blue Fifth Review, Ruminate, New Growth: Recent Kentucky Writing, and Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems. She is at work on two poetry collections and is currently enrolled in the MFA Creative Writing program at Eastern Kentucky University.

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