Finally, at sixty, I see

Tracie T. Nichols

the unabashed truths

etched across gray folds,

cradled in brittling bone.

Name the

diminishment—

the utter, unholy, unselfing.

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Tracie T. Nichols

Tracie Nichols, M.A is a Transformative Language Artist writing poetry poetry and facilitating writing experiences from under two old Sycamore trees in southeastern Pennsylvania. Co-founder of two writing groups, as well as a board member and newsletter editor for the Transformative Language Arts Network, her poetry has appeared in Rogue Agent and two Women’s Spiritual Poetry anthologies. More at TracieNichols.com.