Poets/Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler

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Why are the woods so alluring? A forest appears …

Amy Gerstler

The dark that’s gathering strength …

Amy Gerstler

He fancies his chances are good with her, …

Amy Gerstler

Gardens are also good places …

Amy Gerstler

I’d given up hope. Hadn’t eaten in three …

Amy Gerstler

We’re down here in the basement …

Amy Gerstler

(Bubbling and spuming …

Amy Gerstler

A million years ago the earth grew cold. Iowa was covered by twenty-five hundred feet of ice. No one knows why the glaciers formed and spread, or why they eventually retreated. …

Amy Gerstler

lives on an island …

Amy Gerstler

Why so many senseless injuries? This one’s glass teeth …

Amy Gerstler

Shook the box like a maraca. …

Amy Gerstler

The dissonance of women. The shrill frilly silly …

Amy Gerstler

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