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Felicia Mitchell

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Felicia Mitchell, a native of South Carolina, has made her home in the mountains of southwest Virginia since 1987. She taught English and creative writing at Emory & Henry College until her retirement in 2020. Her poems appear widely in journals and anthologies, and she is the author of Trail Magic (Wising Up Press, 2024), A Mother Speaks, A Daughter Listens: Journeying Together WIth Dementia (Wising Up Press, 2022) and Waltzing with Horses (Press 53, 2014), collections of poems. In addition to poetry, she has written scholarly works and shared creative nonfiction in newspapers and other publications. Some of her columns on experiences with cancer published in Cure Today have been reprinted internationally.

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Waltzing with Horses

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“Almost Easter


Shaking bone meal
from my bare hands
into the rose bed
where only one bush grows,
I feel as if I’m scattering
my father’s ashes
all over again.

This month marks
the seventh year
my father has lain
in my garden,
his ashes in my hands
still as palpable
as bone meal or thorns.

Easter Sunday,
I will hide an egg
behind his ear.
Jesus will call down to him
to get up and play.
He won’t.
But the rose bush
that is turning green,
this rose will sink its roots
a little deeper in the earth
and in a few months
drop its petals
like so many red tears.

— Felicia Mitchell”
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