Three Poems by Tova Gardner: Little wing, Wanderers, Flying

Little wing

Jimi sets me free
a wave in the sea
castles and a band
he's there in the sand

Wanderers

You know what manna is
such hard crusty bread
keeps falling from the sky
even when you don't believe in God anymore
when all you want is a home not a tent

Flying

When you are up this high
in a plane over the Atlantic

With so much black beneath
and no one waiting but water

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Tova Gardner has twice received Artist Grants from Vermont Studio Center where she studied with poet Kevin Young and will study with poet Marge Piercy. She has been published in the California Quarterly and Dislocate Literary Journal. She currently has a poem in the New Vilna Review. She is the Poetry Editor of the online literary and art journal The Arava Review.