About Elizabeth Enslin
A writer based in Oregon, I look for inspiration and distractions in nature. An anthropologist, I ponder the places where nature and culture meet. A kitchen gardener, I promote biodiversity and learn from farming traditions around the world. A recovering academic, I try to do all with compassion and humor.
Find out more about me here, or at elizabethenslin.com.
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Well, I say you get an A on this! The rhyme is barely noticeable and the pace keeps the reader involved. Very enjoyable!
And it’s wonderful that you’ve been able to pursue two passions!
i liked this…second time readin even better….keep writing
Either/or I love the resolution!
oh i cannot help but to smile as we traveled through the dayz of poetry… ouch, i remember the pinned frog…the one i had was preggers.. thought it intriguing but could not get over the fact of the eggs… thou i soon started to think what if that was me…
this is a great poem – so funny and perceptive – But then came a class on American Lit/with Freud as referee – and this – The world divided into two kinds of hell are two of my favorite lines.