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Poem Up at The Field Guide

Posted on March 24, 2021 by robert okaji

My poem “Before September” is live at The Field Guide Poetry Magazine. Thank you to editor Amanda Marrero for taking this piece.

14 thoughts on “Poem Up at The Field Guide”

Andrew McDowell on March 17, 2021 at 7:09 am said:

Congrats!

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 9:14 am said:
  
  Thanks, Andrew!
  
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  - Andrew McDowell on March 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm said:
    
    You’re welcome.
    
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Jazz Jaeschke on March 17, 2021 at 10:10 am said:

Another twisting of words adaptive to various interpretations! (You are a master at this.) I’m recalling a couple of key points when hazy and crunchy-like-broken-glass suddenly morphed into pliable clarity – thank you for stirring memories.
(And congratulations.)

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm said:
  
  Life is full of ambiguity. 🙂 And thank you!
  
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Lucy on March 17, 2021 at 11:03 am said:

Congratulations on the publication! It’s really an amazing poem with such vivid, stirring imageries.

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 1:40 pm said:
  
  Thanks very much, Lucy.
  
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Lynne Burnett on March 17, 2021 at 12:07 pm said:

I was immersed in the poem’s lovely stillness “And then you spoke”! Perfect shock ending, and congratulations!

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 1:42 pm said:
  
  The world opened at that moment!
  
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stephanielharper on March 17, 2021 at 1:20 pm said:

…and haven’t shut up yet! 😉
❤

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 1:41 pm said:
  
  I’ve always been the tongue-tied one…
  
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  - stephanielharper on March 17, 2021 at 5:47 pm said:
    
    Ha!
    
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Ken / rivrvlogr on March 17, 2021 at 4:16 pm said:

Congratulations, Bob.
Sometimes a word, a voice, is all the light you need, and better so the more you know it.

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- robert okaji on March 17, 2021 at 9:04 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Ken. And so true!
  
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