Otisus

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Otisus
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A decorated soccer player turned yogi-ballerina; Elementary school teacher turned stay-at-home mom, Otisus started writing poetry as a creative outlet and practice of self-improvement. When not fiddling with words, she’s immersed in domestic duties, familial cohesion and finding their bits of joy. A northeast Seattle native, currently residing in the city’s west with her husband, three children, and eight plants

  June 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 2 total

Sam in the Salish Sea

Sam in the Salish Sea
Reads the currents’ flow at ease
Cradled by inlets from gentle earthen crease
Learns by pace keeping with peers this
School incorporates constant movement &
Alertness make discipline imprinted

 
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Sticks and the City

Like a lattice-shaded confessional wall
Is through which I divulge my
Demonic vice in detail:

Inhaling that rapturous vapor
Initially happened
When it was passed

My head and mouth said no-“yeah”
Then exhaled with the wind
Off a...

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I like the rhythm of this poem and how many words fit into each breath.

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