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Fishing Indian Creek

February 24, 2020 by Marri Champié

… “Fishermen are superstitious of their souls”…
2018 Oregon Poetry Association spring competition,
2013 Boise State University President’s Writing Award

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Boise State University President's Writing Award 2013, death, fishing, Oregon Poetry Association, winning poem

Frost

March 28, 2019 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
“I am rings. Rings of happy and sad seasons. Thick rings, and thin. An old tree, waiting to be cut down, or struck by lightning. I am rings of history and fear.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: death, heatbreak, time, winter, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

Death of an Archaeologist

April 29, 2018 by Marri Champié

sonnet from “Hard Rime.”
Honorable mention, Oregon State Poetry Society, 2018

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: archaeology, death, love, poetry, sonnet

Cat’s Garden

February 1, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
Loneliness seeped into each windswept, prairie day until Cat could almost finger the sadness that clogged her throat, and feel its shape, a cold desperation that was hard like stone

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Boise State University President's Writing Award, death, Fiction, ghosts, growing old, pot culture, previous lives, ROAR Magazine, Sept-May relationships, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

The Family Plot

October 15, 2010 by Marri Champié

“I want to hear their guilt, sing like a millstone of crow hearts.” …from the collection “One Coyote Winter”

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: bad girl, death, family, family cemetery, jealousy, One Coyote Winter, poem, revenge

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