JULIA HATCH - POEMS

Julia Hatch self-identifies as a bookworm and once took a literature class instructed by a favorite writer, Maya Angelou.  When she’s not reading or writing, she plays an impressive game of fetch with her cat while her other cat feigns disinterest.  She resides with her family in Maryland after trying out several other locations.  Her poetry has been published by or accepted for publication by journals including Vox Poetica, Quail Bell, Steam Ticket, Magnolia Review, Mojave Heart Review, and Dual Coast Magazine.

​FIRE AND ICE

Tiled and uniform
Cool blue 
But red uprising

Fire melting into the icy blue
of the chilling sea
Unclear whether ice is 

subsuming the flames
Or fire is evaporating
the lapping coolness

Were it not for your 
jarring fiery spark
All would fold in

And be drowned by the 
unrelenting sea
Deceptively calm blue

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I

I breathe life into the world
So too I breathed in 
its congestion, commotion, confusion

I connect to the world
So too I am connected through
its networks, tunnels, tubes 

I view the world
So too I am viewed through
its visions, windows, concepts

I conquer the world
So too I am conquered by 
its buildings, roundabouts, freeways

I compose the world
So too I am composed by
its notes, clefs, symphonies

I suffocate the world
So too I am suffocated with 
its pollution, darkness, clouds

I map the world
So too I am mapped with
its arteries, veins, capillaries

I illuminate the world
So too I am illuminated through
its sunlight, moonlight, spaces

I sew the world
So too I am sewn through
its fabrics, threads, patterns

I made the world
So too I am made with
its lungs, heart, vessels

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