Gently Worn

By Teresa Hubley

A collection of 30 poems, from sonnets to free verse, from thoughtful to funny, mercifully brief

• Language: English
• Publisher: Teresa Hubley
• Release date: Mar 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463005187

Teresa Hubley

Teresa Hubley was born in Minneapolis and moved every couple of years after that, winding up in a handful of small Midwestern towns, suburban California and even west Africa. As an adult, she acquired a doctoral degree in anthropology and has lived most of her life in Maine, where she works in the health field. She usually has too many books to keep track of going at any time on her reading list. Favorite authors include Charles Dickens, E.M. Forster, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth Peters, and Dave Barry. Lunch out with Teresa and her family usually includes the reading of a few pages while the meal is delivered. When she's not reading or writing, she might be drawing, going for a long walk, or sneaking a guilty pleasure moment playing games on her tablet.

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The Sonnets

All Together Now

Winter Seen

Morning Laps

Rosetta Stone

Firstborn

Kayak Drum

DNLS GRL

Sweetness Lost

Yellowship

All The Rest

Silverfish

One Man’s Paradise

The Worth of a Stone

Big and Little

Disculpame

The Final Frontier

The Threshold of the City

Christmas Under the Orange

Brief Lyric

Coming of the Cutter

Rotary Rules

Syncope

Three Trees

A Wish for Magic

Girl on a String

Hadrian’s Wall

Bell Buoy

Waiting It Out

Ghost Apples

Listing to the Side

Key to Eternity

The Sonnets

All Together Now

On the train, the only sound is our breath

And the rustling of the morning paper

And beneath us the clicking of the track

And among us the bleeping of the phones

All eyes are turned away from the center

Absorbed in headlines and scenes from the news

Or staring at the long, shiny ceiling

Or contemplating the toes of our shoes

We’re close enough to each other to touch