Ann E. Wallace

SIMPLY

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I dream
of simply
walking

I remember
walking simply

Or do I?

I walk
but no longer
simply

I have forgotten
how
to simply walk

Forgotten
the feeling
of simply walking

Ann E. Wallace, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English at New Jersey City University. She has published on traumatic memory, loss, and illness, as well as on her teaching practices within the composition classroom. Her work has recently appeared in Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Mothers Always Write, The Literary Nest, Coldnoon, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, as well as in the September 2016 issue of Wordgathering.