Bone Hide Hair

By Donna Ross-Thengs

Donna Ross-Thengs debut book of poetry tugs at our heartstrings and brings both joy and sorrow to the forefront in her memories of childhood and the travails of adulthood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silver Bow Publishing
• Release date: Oct 23, 2016
• ISBN: 9781927616321

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Bone hide hair

By Donna Ross-Thengs

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I fell off my pink cloud with a thud.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

OTHER BOOKS BY DONNA ROSS

The Size of Love Matters ( Little God Publishing 2009 )

Title: bone hide hair

Author: Donna Ross-Thengs

Copyright © 2014 Silver Bow Publishing

Cover Art: Travelers of the Tundra by Robbie Craig

Cover Design: Janet Kvammen

Layout Design: Candice James

Editor: Candice James

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Ross, Donna, 1968-, author

Bone hide hair / Donna Ross-Thengs.

Includes index.

Poems.

ISBN 978-1-927616-12-3 (pbk.)

for Collin

Tin Drum Hearts Beating

I keep no memories

instead

I dream in cobalt

indigo

robin's egg

sapphire

sky.

The colour of her eyes.

In my dreams

smell is the sense that is the strongest.

Her breath is layers of smoke and peppermints

my own

is of Juicy Fruit

and Dubble Bubble.

Her neck and fingertips

are a blend

of Ivory Soap

and

L'air Du Temps perfume by Windsong.

Mine is that of wet earth and crayon wax.

She wore lacquered cherries in her hair

and they shone smoothly in my hand

when I brushed and brushed her dark brown