Poem Renaissance – Terry Hall Bodine

Gyroscope Review is celebrating National Poetry Month with a Poem Renaissance, a review of previously published poems looking for new life and new views. Every day through May 20^th, a new poem to fall in love with all over again.

No Place Like Home
by Terry Hall Bodine

A childless aunt is not a mother.

A spare room is not a child’s room.

A spoonful of ipecac is never tender.

Photographs on the bureau are not memories.

A dog can be a confidante, but not the way a sister is
who braids your hair and shares her shoes and tells on a boy
she might have kissed one spring in the old storm cellar.

Scarecrows aren’t playmates.

Neither are crows.

This poem was featured online by Roanoke Review in July 2018.

Terry Hall Bodine is a graduate of the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Recent publication credits include Gyroscope Review, San Pedro River Review, Pine Row, and Litmosphere. Her chapbook, The Something We Make from Nothing was issued by Seven Kitchens Press in February 2024. Terry lives in Lynchburg with her husband, Bill.

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