In blistery sunshinethe Shellpicker’s gown gleams white with black- inked cowries and conches trumpets and moons. She guards her beach and checks each shell to sort the living from the lost.
Kelly DuMar
Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright and workshop facilitator. She’s author of four poetry chapbooks. Her poems are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush and more. Her digital images have been featured on the cover of Josephine Quarterly, Brooklyn Review, About Place, Cool Beans Lit, & more. Her images celebrate the habitat of her home on the rural Charles River in Sherborn. Kelly’s digital collages are composed from her original digital images.
Lightning Welk
Furious
Unicorn
Broken
Everything you love and lose washes back to shoreon a freak wave, it is believed from the seas which a poet says are filled with dolls and allher broken bones. Lucky todayI salvage an arm.