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Jeanne Murray Walker
Jeanne Murray Walker teaches at the University of Delaware. Her most recent book is Helping the Morning: New and Selected Poems.
Living a simplified life in France
Eric Freeze and his family moved to Nice—in order to spend less and live better.
June 25, 2021
Little blessing for suicidal child
I am driving in late day sunlight
when a girl in a silver car aims
for me and quick as an email
from hell, sails to my address.
Her stare obliterates me, empties...
August 3, 2020
Invocation beside the ocean
You, who were not in the candleflame, not
in the Mass this morning, season after season
why do you keep silence? Come. Roll in on breakers...
July 15, 2020
Possession
The gang of purple iris outside my window
have been calling me all day with soft
sexual lips, the graffiti of their yellow stamen, their...
September 11, 2018
Badlands: Utah
That July I headed in my rental car
to see the eerie tall stone fuchsia/orange/
and purple hoodoos. Soon the boulders
blazed up, sky poured golden fire that singed...
June 20, 2018
Being so wild, how can anyone hold her?
This morning, early, a hummingbird flutters
beside the hibiscus, untamed as
your daughter’s...
January 12, 2018
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October, before anyone else is up
With its many brooms
the cold breeze is sweeping
red leaves from...
October 12, 2017
Here we come, world, June 6th, 2015
In her right hand she clutches red and purple
wildflowers, her long flaxen hair tumbling
from its bun, her slender fingers laced
in his burly fingers, trying to knit one...
May 23, 2017
The failing student
Her tattoos, her way of pulling back her lips
the way a stallion does when he won’t take
the bit....
May 3, 2017
The cobbler goes out of business
We check the empty rooms, close the door.
Music vanishes. Finches flash by
and disappear. ...
March 2, 2017

Ordinary grace
The reversals in this book aren’t easy. There is nothing sentimental or giddy about them. They are real. They are ordinary.
June 15, 2016