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Pat Draper

Pat Draper manages the Heart Failure and Transitional Care Clinic at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital. Pat got involved with the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation in 2015 by attending a writing workshop at the Writing Center. The following year,…

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Mia Martinelli

From my experience in Teens Listen, I have been able to hear many stories from different perspectives. I thoroughly enjoyed reminiscing with the interviewees about their life. I heard about the heartbreak of loosing a loved one and I saw…

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In Due Form

I do not doubt you. I know you love me. It is a fact of your indoor face, A true fancy of your muscularity. Your step is confident. Your look is thorough. Your stay-beside-me is a pillow To roll over…

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The Quids by Laura (Riding) Jackson

The little quids, the million quids, The everywhere, everything, always quids, The atoms of the Monoton— Each turned three essences where it stood And ground a gisty dust from its neighbors’ edges Until a powdery thoughtfall stormed in and out,…

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The Poet’s Corner

Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what was poetry And now is pride beside And nationality, Here is a battle with no bravery But if the coward’s…