Today's poem is
"Leda in Old Age"
from Gargoyle
Ellen Aronofsky Cole
is a poet, actress, puppeteer, and teaching artist. Her books include her full length collection, Notes from the Dry Country, (Mayapple Press, 2019) and Prognosis, (Finishing Line Press, 2011.) Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Little Patuxent Review, Potomac Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Fledgling Rag, New Verse News, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. Her article "My Life as a (Fake) Patient," was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland with her husband Brian, and a small, feisty parrot named Haiku.
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Other poems on the web by Ellen Aronofsky Cole:
Two poems
"To Wayne, Diagnosed with Schizophrenia in 1973"
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