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The Missing Sea
by Kelly Dolejsi
Full-length, Paper
979-8-89990-290-1
2025
How does anyone make it through loss? The Missing Sea begins in a boat without water, “surrounded by nothing,” and throughout the poem series asks, Who am I without my mother? Yet, it is presence, not absence, that prevails. An abandoned dog finds her valentine. Chickens from an imagist poem spring to life. Antique lamps bring a mother and daughter together. The Missing Sea is ultimately a story of learning what love has been and what love can be.
Kelly Dolejsi has published poetry and fiction in numerous literary journals, including North American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Fifth Wednesday, The Hunger, Broken Ribbon, West Texas Literary Review, Junto, Gravel, Dirty Paws, The Hungry Chimera, Joey and the Black Boots, and The Disconnect. Her poem “Loyalty” was nominated for the Best of the Net, and her contribution to the book, September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (edited by William Heyen) was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her chapbook, That Second Starling, was published in 2018 by Desert Willow Press. She has also written theatrical plays, newspaper columns, and feature news stories for her local community in Los Alamos, NM. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston.
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