Multiple Exposures

By Sara Marie Hogg

Multiple Exposures got its title from a photography mistake the author made. A sticky plunger caused a multiple exposure of a self- portrait. It serves as the cover art and symbolizes the many sides of her soul she has bared in the verses.
Multiple Exposures is Sara's second volume of Poetry. Many of poems are about gritty real-life events. There are dreamy, atmospheric poems inspired by music or weather conditions. In some verses, enigmas of the cosmos or the human mind are pondered.
Vibrant imagery is the hallmark of Sara's poetry. Some of it can be moody and dark.
She chose her own favorite poems for this volume, and included some favorite encore poems from her first volume:
Dark Shadings, Spattered Light--and other publications.
Recipient of the Gold Award, Multiple Exposures, by Sara Marie Hogg has been announced the First Place winner, Global eBook Awards, Poetry Category, 2012 at the red carpet event in Santa Barbara, California. (August 18, 2012). If you love poetry, you just may find something to love in Multiple Exposures, by Sara Marie Hogg.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sara Marie Hogg
• Release date: Jun 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452321226

Sara Marie Hogg

Sara Marie Hogg was born in 1949 in Cabool, Missouri to Laura Marie and Dr. Garrett Hogg Jr., M.D. She attended Stephen F. Austin State University and graduated with a BFA from Texas Christian University in 1972 with a major in painting. She also studied under the instruction of Chapman Kelly and Alberto Collie at Northwood Institute of Texas in the Arts Program. She has been published in Springfield! Magazine, Fate Magazine, Tulsa World and Taney County Times Newspapers. Poetry is her first love and she received an award in the First Annual Missouri Writers' Week Awards for Poetry and she received a Boswell Award for poetry from the English Department of her alma mater, TCU. Her poetry has been spotlighted in many anthologies including one by Enright House of Ireland. Her bound works include Catho Darlington--Lessons Learned in the Space Age (a novel), Blade Chatter (a short story collection written under a pseudonym) and Dark Shadings, Spattered Light, her first volume of poetry. She is also working on a children's book, Mumbledypeg, On Call, and a second volume of poetry, Multiple Exposures. Publishing Update: Blade Chatter received second place awards in short fiction and illustration, Global eBook Awards. Her volume of poetry, Multiple Exposures was the first place winner in poetry, 2012, Global eBook Awards. She has serialized three Detective Thriller novels at Venture Galleries: The Scavenger's Song, Dark Continent, Continental and Gris Gris. All three feature homicide detectives Angus Carlyle and Skeeter Sherwood. She writes a weekly Mystery Blog for Venture Galleries that uses fictional stories to explore unsolved mysteries and is bundling these stories into books the books Quite Curious and Curious, Indeed. The first has been published and the second is almost completed. The eerie work of short fiction, The Spark of Life will be the title story in a volume of short fiction. She also plans a work, It Rises From the Pee Dee, about a young man that gets involved in the Revolutionary War because of his skill as a scout and spy. At times he disguises himself as a Native American while he is working for regiments in the Carolinas. He survives the war, marries and has children.

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MULTIPLE EXPOSURES

poetry by

Sara Marie Hogg

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Natural Lighting

Blue Jay Feather

Blue Jay feather on the ground,

Flutters,

White-tipped end, wind-driven,

Blue-black lines fall into

White-shaft, pointed,

Writing stories in the dust,

Writing Jay! Jay! Jay!

Bird stories in the dust

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Anaphylactic Bliss

Lone back-of-the-patch watermelons

Begging to be broke open

Were a good crime story,

But no one ever went to jail

Not ten paces away

Twenty-three white boxes lined-up

Going east to west in a

Sort of solar ellipse,

A direct path toward

The back screen door

Of Mamma Jewel’s growing-empty nest

On Cedar Street

If you got close enough

To take a secret peek,

As kids do,

To see the ivory cubes, a big mystery,

You might run off with a shriek,