September 28, 2023: Two poems by Kelley Jean White: "Marmots Beware" and "Winnipesaukee, Snow Moon"
Pediatrician Kelley White has worked in inner-city Philadelphia and rural New Hampshire. Her poems have appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Rattle, and JAMA . Her most recent chapbook is A Field Guide to Northern Tattoos (Main Street Rag Press.) She received a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant and is currently Poet in Residence at Drexel University College of Medicine. Her newest collection, No.Hope Street has just been published by Kelsay Books. Marmots Beware Old Faithful, Yosemite, El Capitan! These cheeky little creatures will not be denied. You must wrap your car in plastic like enormous trash or Christmas presents lest the little fellows crunch up electrics or your engine. Don’t forget the underwrappings, they can squeeze into your chassis, and do more damage than our average little eastern squirrels. They live at elevations over 7000 feet so we’re mainly safe from their sharp little teeth here along the Atlantic. But a chipmunk’s brought down many an old car left idl...