Karen Whalley
Karen Whalley lives in Port Angeles, Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection The Rented Violin.
Poetry
Lucky Pick
At the library / you can ask for a “lucky pick,” / meaning the librarian will choose / a novel for you based on what you tell her, / like blind dating or a toy / buried deep in the bottom of a box / of cereal, because there are still things / in life that might surprise us.
May 2021
Poetry
Selling The Old Family Volvo
The young couple and their two small sons / Drive from the city to pay for and take the keys / To my old family Volvo — a car, like a house, / Full of memories, full of departures and returns.
February 2017
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