Poems Niederngasse
LouAnn Shepard Muhm
The Lady of Shalott
 
Could not weave the world
and live in it,
just as I can not write a thing
while it is here.
 
It is only in absence
that the reflection comes,
the warp and weft under my hands
showing me for the first time
what it is
I have seen.
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm in s a poet and teacher from the northwoods of Minnesota. Her poems have appeared in Dust & Fire, The Talking Stick, North Coast Review, Lake Country Journal, and CALYX.  She is a recipient of the 2006 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in Poetry.  email: LouAnn  -   Webpage