THE FOUND POEMS OF AMELIA EARHART
Putnam guarded Amelia’s lines
on death and desire
scribbled on envelopes
hidden in notebooks
No dates or context clues
Private flights of fancy
charred by a house fire
Metaphors jotted on pink notes, tiny sunsets
over a gray sea of scribbled graphite
Lyrics on women and beauty – images
splintered while plummeting
from the clouds, artifacts
half-buried in sand
somewhere
Inspired by Traci Brimhall, ‘On Lost Lyric Poetry of Amelia Earhart: A Missing Pilot and Her Poems’ (Literary Hub via New England Review, 02/01/2020)
FROM THE AMELIA EARHART SPECIAL
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Barbara is an internationally known prize-winning poet and Pushcart nominee. She is especially indebted to Spillwords for past honors. Her debut poetry collection, Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir (Experiments in Fiction, 2022), which is about her relationship with her mother, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, is a best seller on Amazon. Barbara is also the Editor for MasticadoresUSA.
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