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Silas Marner Redacted by David Jibson

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smcoversmall-2Silas Marner Redacted is a series of 20 short poems redacted from the classic novel by George Eliot. It’s avialable to read in a free PDF. Click the cover image to go to the page.  Here is a sample of what you’ll find:

Grief

loss served the slow
current of bereavement
that so withered a life
a wide cheerless unknown
a life snatched away
the earth broken
crushed by grief
sat in loneliness
and moaned very low



			
		

	
	



			
				


			
				


			
				



	
	

		
		
Travel Advice for My Teen-aged Daughter Who Has Asked to Go on Spring Break / David Jibson

				

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This poem was featured at a fall meeting of the Poetry Society of Michigan. It was a response to a prompt from Elizabeth Kerlikowske, then president of the organization. “Write a poem giving someone advice. It could be an extended metaphor. And fun/clever/don’t even think of rhyming.”