One way or another

"One way or another" was selected juried runner-up for poetry in Short Edition's America: color it in Contest, summer 2020. Robin is an artist, writer, & journaler. She left Ohio many years ago for the rugged beauty of Albuquerque, New Mexico and has been smitten with the landscape ever since. ​You can find her on Instagram as @inkandalchemy or her website, robin-reynolds.com.

And the poor have the sufferings to which they are fairly accustomed And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom from In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden Wander the towns of America, and ask are you free? I asked this of a woman in the Dollar Tree parking lot which had been wilting under the sticky Cleveland heat for weeks. My head was a donut just out of the fryer. She barely looked my direction as she gathered small children set them right in the cart, tied a shoe, patted her purse. Her hair needed a wash. With a heave, she drove the cart, rusty and listing to

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