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Four New Poems

I’ve just had four new poems published in Root Smoke journal. Here they are, below. https://rootsmoke.substack.com/p/melinda-coppola Spring There is nothing to say that the green world bursting faithfully again into blossom hasn’t outlined on…

MelindaMarch 18, 2026

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Feast

The Cardinal Maybe it’s the cold, the heavy woolish snow blanket—more this month than in whole years of hibernal quietude. Maybe it’s the paucity of visitors to our weathered deck. Few flighted ones attempt to…

MelindaFebruary 27, 2026

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Three Love Poems

Consortium Up before you, I hear your shuffle down the morning hall, the clearing of your throat, and my head turns of it’s own accord, trained by years of practice, and I’m looking for your…

MelindaFebruary 13, 2026

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Before the Poetry Reading

BEFORE the POETRY READING I want to thank God, goddess, fate, those who work in the otherworld office of lifespans where decisions are made— perhaps before we are born— about just how long we’ll slosh…

MelindaJanuary 22, 2026

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The Only Reasonable Light

image by Melinda, "Shekinah" Oh, there is so much pain in this peopled world, and I dare say the majority of it is delivered to humans by other humans. I don’t pretend any circumstances will…

MelindaJanuary 15, 2026

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This is What They Told Me to Tell You

Awakening from a decent night’s sleep a few days ago, I found strings of words inside my eyelids. I didn’t recognize them as my own—my assumption is they are angelic, though the distinction between inside…

MelindaJanuary 5, 2026

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The Bus Stop Moms and Me

Hello, Today I'm sharing a short reading from my collection, "Little Pockets of Glow". Bus Stop Moms is a snapshot into my life in the slower lane of parenting my wonderful daughter who lives with…

MelindaDecember 5, 2025

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To hell, to hell with this dry well

(To confront writers block, she) Mixed metaphors. Now I understand it was never about the others. Not their timeline, their values. Not the scripts we were fed about how to be and behave in this…

MelindaDecember 2, 2025

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On Turkeys and Traffic and TIme

I'm taking a break from promoting my new book this morning to extoll the power of a pause. We humans do tend to plow into the middle of things in our self-important haste to get…

MelindaOctober 23, 2025

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The Introvert at the Podium

Hello there, I've been writing about life with my special needs daughter since she was a toddler. She is by far the most interesting person I know. Like many people who are wired differently, she’s…

MelindaOctober 7, 2025

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