The Search

Trisha Traughber
Nov 3 · 1 min read

A collage poem

Feathers and flames by Trisha Traughber 2019

Searching I
found down and fur
a nest of tangled
beds
the last dripping
fruits of fall
boiled thick.

All the time
I could not find you
you were
everything.

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Trisha Traughber

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Immigrant, bilingual, mother, teacher, book-worm, writer. Life is better when we create - together.

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