The Skinny: Poetry Anthology. Edited by Truth Thomas. Cherry Castle Publishing, c2019.

Anthology includes two Skinny Poems by Ingrid Bruck:  junebugs (p. 20) & hospice (p. 66)

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junebugs 

after full moon shines in the pond, copper green pond scum rises

junebugs

moon

dive

foolhardy

junebugs

drown

reckless

kamikaze 

junebugs

copper green pond scum shines after full moon rises in the pond

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hospice

Jake talks to his dead brother and father in hospice

ocean

waves

boom

rocks

ocean

rips 

rolls

tows

ocean

in hospice, his dead father and brother talk to Jake

Date Published: December 17, 2019