SMOKEY’S BLUE EYES
smokey had blue eyes
they sparkled in the
water like the water
The
Garden willow tree
gone with
the rest
and yes, they mattered.
—from 2015 Rattle Young Poets Anthology
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Why do you like to write poetry?
Abigail Miranda Miller: “I like to write poetry because it allows me to say things I’m thinking beneath the surface.”