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MK Creel's avatar

This exchange is so moving. Have you and Brian have considered publishing these poems in a chapbook/ book? They would make a powerful collection, I think.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

MK, I love your response.

I'm going to talk to Brian. He will do more of these Exchanges. (his brainchild) I could see a chapbook of a year of them.🌱

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Brian Funke's avatar

We haven’t but who knows where things will go?! Thanks for reading along!

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Ann Collins's avatar

Beautiful!!!

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Neil Barker's avatar

Really beautiful poem Katharine! I like the conversation style of the poem. I'm glad the image was helpful to your poem!

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

Gratitude to you, Neil, for permission to use your photo. I wish you could have heard my editor's gasp when she first saw the Great Blue Heron!💙

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Brian Funke's avatar

It is such a striking photo! Well done💫

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Neil Barker's avatar

Thanks Brian and appreciate the series you and Katharine are writing!

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Amy Payne's avatar

especially in the face of what came next, wow. Compassion and kindness and a salute of respect to the storyteller. And the waters.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

and the waters, yes.💙

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Margaret Taylor Kane's avatar

If a river and a wetland could speak in communion, they have done it here. The heron is a river narrator. Bravo to this collaboration!! The conversational style smartly makes this poem piece accessible as a teaching tool.

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

Taylor, thank you for making my week💙🌎

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Nathan Slake's avatar

This is a very clever back and forth, Katharine. Very impressive.

Also, "riparian". I learn a new word!

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

Riparian ~ I met the word while working on Rights of Nature for the Swannanoa River. Smitten…always looking for the opportunity to say “riparian.”

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