Thank you to The McKinley Review for posting two of my poems in their Summer Issue #6.

https://www.themckinleyreview.com/issue-6-summer-2019

Here is one of them:

Paper Dolls Left in the Rain

By: Linda Imbler | Posted on: Summer 2019

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I must remember to grab the right half of truth,

that clarity sometimes breathed at dawn.

And remember the radiant substance 

of our friendship.

Knowing you long ago,

and all the colorless girls and boys,

and what transpired 

within a mere fraction of my life,

might seem to others as weak,

but what power it held.

Hearing of your silent death

throws such wistfulness my way,

and I can no longer truly feel

our reminiscences without you at the other end.

And though I wish to stop 

and really relive my best years,

the ritual of time is pulling me along,

pulling me beyond 

the demarcation line 

between childhood to adult.