Everything I Have to Say About Poetry

Posted on by Karelia Stetz-Waters

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You Don’t Have to Explain

A poem is your mother’s shadow
moving through winter,
ethereal
and familiar.

3 thoughts on “Everything I Have to Say About Poetry”

  1. I wrote this poem after my writing group aggressively pruned one of our colleague’s poems. We weren’t being mean. We think he’s a great writer, but he wanted his poem to explain things and we wanted it to hint at…to glance at…to whisper past without speaking…

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Karelia Stetz-Waters is contemporary lesbian romance writer. She is passionate about providing happy endings and a vision of redemptive love for readers of all orientations. Her novels include For Good, Something True, The Admirer, The Purveyor, and Lambda and Goldie finalist Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before. Karelia also teaches English at Linn-Benton Community College and believes that her 15+ years teaching English brings a level of literary quality to the genre writing she loves. She has a BA in comparative literature from Smith College and an MA in English literature from the University of Oregon. For more on Karelia, visit her website at kareliastetzwaters.com.