Poetry books stacked on the sofa
Poetry on the sofa

Poems by Joannie Kervran Stangeland
The sofa
If Wishes Were Horses


Each of these poems is based on a proverb or the moral at the end of a fable—and each poem strives to look at that proverb or moral a little differently, as though to say, "But what if…"

You can guess which proverbs you think the poems refer to, or you can click the Legend link at the bottom of each page to find out which proverb I was thinking of when I wrote the poem.



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