Poem Reading: Nowhere on All Sides

Published in The Moving Force Journal — Issue 5 — Fall/Winter 2021

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It is April 2023, National Poetry Month. I am recording myself reading one of my published/curated pieces of poetry each day for 30 days.

Reading # 14 of 30

This poem is titled Nowhere on All Sides. It is a poem dedicated to the immigration of my ancestors from Slovenia after an earthquake in the late 1800s and the mentality it takes to cross an ocean to search for a better life. This poem is available to read online in the PDF version of Issue 5, Fall/Winder 2021 of The Moving Force Journal (pages 8 & 9).

©️ Trapper Markelz 2023

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