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Reading ‘Black Well’

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Reading ‘Black Well’ from The Branch That I Am.

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Preorder is LIVE/Release Date

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You can now preorder my chapbook THE BRANCH THAT I AM across most EBook platforms, as well as in paperback. See the links below for all your options.

EBook Options:
Barns & Nobles
Apple Books
Kobo
Tolino
Backer &Tayler
Vivlio
Borrow Box

Chapters&Indigo Canada

Amazon

Paperback:
Barns & Nobles US
Amazon CAN

Release date is November 2nd.
Celebrate with me by shouting from the rooftops!

I plan on also offering the ebook directly from my website after the release date. I will keep you posted on the progress of getting that set up. Thank you all for rooting for me, and continuing to read my work.

Paperback cover and back mater.
©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
All Rights Reserved

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Be Kind

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ungrand
a simpleness

a thing we teach to kids
yet in adulthood,
remissed

plain concepts
hard to execute,
when wrapped in selfish flesh

hero
the one who holds
this bold,
under pressures

refusing to let the world
rob
gestures

small
filled with explosive love

a tinny act
capable
of slamming shut hell’s door

Holly Father,
teach us all,
to pour out more

©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef

(Lisa’s word for my Words of Weight project)

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His Dream

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I was a thought
before my birth.
A dream He spun into the mathematics of time.

As the universe floats
in a consciousness beyond
human understanding,

He still dreams of me.
My days.
My ways.

For He loves all His dreams.

©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef

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Cover Reveal/THE BRANCH THAT I AM

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It’s really happening! I am so excited to announce the final cover design for my upcoming chapbook.

Cover art by Mary Grace van der Kroef.
Original watercolor design on watercolor paper.

The Editing process has stretched me. There were tears, and procrastination and frustration. But I am so thankful for the process. I have learned so much from working with an editor, and I am proud of what we have accomplished for my first release.

I don’t have a set release date yet as final formatting needs to take place, but look for it before a pre-sale date announced in the next few weeks, with a release date in early November. (That is the goal.)

Copyright ©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef
All rights reserved
Paperback cover design, and back matter

You can expect this collection of 25 poems to be available in paperback and ebook versions.

Thank you for dropping in to celebrate with me!

Mary Grace van der Kroef

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Under

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Trembles only felt,
never seen by the world at large
have given roots strength.

©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef

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How do You Catch a Cloud

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How do you catch a cloud
and pin it down?

Or corner a thing
that floats in wisps
ethereal wings?

Raise a hand and feel it weep,
cold drops to
spatter feet.

What heart could
pin it so,
speak the chastising word, no?

A nature not
made for earth.
Still waters hearts with tears of mirth.

Even when billows build,
muddled air, heated, then chilled.

Particles, a dancing clash
building energies full blast,

to strike the hand, pin poised.
A nature feared
also enjoyed.


You could never win.

©2021 Mary Grace van der Kroef

Inspiration by:
‘Maria’
by Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers

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