Kathy Lohrum Cotton

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Weeding

When the heart hardens
to sun-baked clay, clenching
roots thick as rope,

let me remember today,
how rain and rain and rain
loosened every weed,

how a dandelion's
long white dragon tail
pulled up whole.

Kathy Lohrum Cotton of southern Illinois is the author of two chapbooks and the illustrated poetry collection, Deluxe Box of Crayons. Since retirement, Cotton has supported poets and poetry by serving as editor for nine anthologies and as a member of the Illinois State Poetry Society board of directors. She is a 2014 Pushcart nominee.