Laura Ann Reed

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The Aging Poet Talks Back to her Parents

What you say is true:
I didn't bloom.
But then again,
that's not what maples do.

Laura Ann Reed, a native of Berkeley, California, was a dance instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area prior to becoming the Leadership Development Trainer at the San Francisco headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She and her husband now reside in Western Washington. Her work has been anthologized in How To Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, and has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Grey Sparrow, The Ekphrastic Review, Third Wednesday and other journals.