Nancy Chen Long

March 2015

Nancy Chen Long received a BS in Electrical Engineering Technology and an MBA, worked as an electrical engineer, software consultant, and project manager, and more recently earned an MFA. She is the author of the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). You’ll find her recent and forthcoming work in Mason’s Road, Sycamore Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, and elsewhere. As a volunteer with the local Writers Guild, Nancy offers poetry workshops and coordinates a reading series for poets. In addition, she writes poetry-book reviews and interview poets at readwritepoetry.blogspot.com

“My Own Shepherd”

How shall we touch this lovely

bruise, exquisite as a violet stone?

So winsome, the ministry of lies.

I will not always bow down

to strange roads unknown,

pass into shadow, cold and bare.

What matter? There is no table

of enemies. I have a quiet foe.

3:3 Marach 2015

 

Craig Kurtz

M.J. Iuppa

Tamara Hollins

Nancy Chen Long

Jonathan Beale

Darren C. Demaree

 

 

 

 

 

Erasure. Source “January 22nd – My Own Shepherd” from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year, by John Henry Jowett (1914)

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