Pulling Back the Seams: Collected Poems 1998 - 2015

By Mindy Cooper

This collection of poems follows the author’s loves and heartbreaks from her late teens into her late thirties. Hand selected from many journals and stacks of papers, these poems range from the telling of first love and heartbreak, to family and motherhood, and plunges into the depths of grief after losing a parent. It’s a quick and powerful read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 16, 2016
• ISBN: 9781329907478

Mindy Cooper

Mindy M. Cooper is a Visiting Assistant Librarian at IUPUI University Library and serves as Reference Desk supervisor as well as liaison to the School of Journalism. She is currently chair of University Library’s Diversity Council and chair of the library’s Campus Outreach Group.

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Pulling Back the Seams: Collected Poems 1998 - 2015

Pulling Back the Seams

Collected Poems

1998-2015

by

Mindy Cooper

Pulling Back the Seams – Copyright @2016 by Mindy Cooper. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author.

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Cover design by Jay Nerlinger.

ISBN: 9781329907478

For my dad, who used to say,

I think you should put all your poems in a book.

So I did.

I love you Dad.

I miss you.

Thomas E. Cooper

1948-2014

Love

earthed

she has lips, red

like the sun has enflamed them

with the color of life

waiting for him to kiss

and he does

he kisses her like

she is an ocean for

him to drink and live on

and she presses into him

like he is the earth

for her to plant herself in

together

they are rooted

drinking and living

from each other

Pronunciation

I like the way

he says my name

the way it rolls

off his tongue

like it’s lived

inside him forever