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    No Longer Water
    No Longer Water
    No Longer Water
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    No Longer Water

    By Kaye Katrina

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    No Longer Water is a collection of poems welcoming raw emotion regarding the process of aging mindfully into a truer self. Here, aging is regarded as a gift rather than a burden. In particular, a woman's personal journey from who she once was to who she is now. With growth, either physical or mental, there are aches and discomforts that hurt to

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEchobird Press LLC
    Release dateNov 20, 2023
    ISBN9781961370012
    No Longer Water
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    Kaye Katrina

    Katrina Kaye (formerly Katrina K Guarascio) is an educator, writer, publisher, artist, and community organizer. A lifelong creator, she has been published in various ezines, magazines, and anthologies. She also spent time on the performance stage, touring across the United States and participating in various poetry festivals and events, before hanging up her microphone in 2015. She is the author of two chapbook collections and three out of print collections. Katrina lives gratefully and happily in New Mexico with the love of her life. She continues to write, perform, and publish her own writing on the website: poetkatrinakaye.com

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      No Longer Water - Kaye Katrina

      No

      Longer

      Water

      A Chapbook of Poetry

      Katrina Kaye

      Copyright © 2023 by Katrina Kaye

      All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any other means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording without prior permission of Katrina Kaye unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law.

      Address inquiries in permission to:

      Echobird Press, echobirdpress.com

      ISBN 981-1-961370-00-5 | ISBN 981-1-961370-01-2 EPUB

      Contents

      Re Shape 1
      Dreams 2
      Balance 4
      Everyone has a Summer 5
      Disinfect 7
      Three Days 9
      Mirror 11
      In Between 12
      Voice 13
      Unfinished 15
      Mule 17
      Kate Once Told Me 19
      Father 21
      Turning Tricks 23
      Disappear 25
      Lullaby 27
      No Longer Water 29
      And Now I 31
      Release 35
      Be Content 37
      Begin Again 39
      Re Shape

      I disentangle myself

      from the woman

      I used to be

      allow her

      to rest

      her time well spent

      has ended

      and now

      I mold with

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