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Amanda Weir-Gertzog

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Nature Told Me: Poems

Nature Told Me: Poems

Through twelve poems, nature told me explores the relationship between a chronically ill woman and the seasonal ecosystem outside her bedroom window.

2023

Amanda Weir-Gertzog

Amanda Weir-Gertzog

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Write Under the Moon

Building Plastic Flowers in the Anthropocene

A poem

2d ago

pastel portrait of a young seated woman with long brown hair framed by multicolored abstract flowers in greens, blues, yellows, and violets

2d ago

Published in
Write Under the Moon

Let Me Bow My Head

A poem of chronic contemplation

Nov 28, 2024

portrait of a reflective person with closed eyes and bowed head wearing orange against a teal background

Nov 28, 2024

Published in
Write Under the Moon

What I Have Are These Few Words

A poem of ebb and flow

Nov 8, 2024

portrait of a woman with brown hair wearing a green dress with yellow flowers holding a large seashell with the roiling sea in the background

Nov 8, 2024

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Write Under the Moon

In the Hum of My Insomniac State

I reach out to you

Oct 22, 2024

Mary L. Macomber, “Night and Her Daughter Sleep” (Oil on Canvas, 1902), woman with dark hair and a shining star in the palm of her hand leans over a sleeping young woman

Oct 22, 2024

Published in
Write Under the Moon

I Pour My Lonely Into Stone Cups

Poems

Oct 7, 2024

The Cushion (Martha Kurzweil Seated on a Divan) by Max Kurzweil (Austrian, 1867–1916) Germany, early 20th Century Woodcut printed in colors (yellow, green, brown, blue, black)

Oct 7, 2024

Hurricane Helene Barreled Down

A poem

Sep 29, 2024

a woman with long and wildly wind-whipped auburn hair

Sep 29, 2024

Instructions for Traveling West: Book Review

Joy Sullivan’s poetry debut flourishes and delights

Aug 19, 2024

A young person with long dark hair stands with their arms held high in a field with a translucent shawl billowing around in the light breeze like wings

Aug 19, 2024

Published in
The Creative Collective

How It Tumbles

Time after time

Aug 5, 2024

color photograph of a young woman wearing a yellow sundress sitting on a felled tree in the sand

Aug 5, 2024

August bookish nook Prompt: Best Library Memories

First library visit? Secret reading spot? Favorite library?

Aug 2, 2024

color photpgraph of a young woman reading a book with an orange cover with sitting cross-legged on the floor between two full shelves of books in the library

Aug 2, 2024

Published in
Write Under the Moon

July Undone

A poem

Jul 28, 2024

colorful graphic illustration in golds, purples, and greens of a summer moon beaming onto a winding forest river

Jul 28, 2024

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