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  • TENDERNESS ON MAIN – NEW POETRY BOOK

    Tenderness on Main is a collection of 43 poems about deep, tender love in all its forms: love between two people, love between the Universe & a person, & love between a person & themselves.

    out of the gloom, first //

    it was all very tender, the way you
    took such great care to unearth the most colorful flower you could find
    from the bottom of the pile at the garbage dump &
    hold it out to me saying,
    “treasures are found everywhere” & I said
    “I know, I always find them too” & you
    smiled at me & I knew what you meant &
    it wasn’t in a garbage dump that we found each other but
    neither of us were on top of the world either but
    inch by inch we pulled ourselves from the bottom of the pile &
    declared that we were worthy & ready &
    I reached out my hand to you & you wrapped your fingers in mine &
    we carried the flower out of the dump between us &
    it always lasted in full-bloom

    Publication Date: August 1, 2019
    Genre: Poetry

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  • The Ashlee Craft Show – Episode 002 – Poetry – “part two”

    In the second episode of The Ashlee Craft Show, I read the poem “part two” from my poetry book, “A Beautiful Question of Where & When”.

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    POEM:
    part two

    I left the space open
    to write a good-bye letter to you

    & the empty page stared back at me
    gasping & lurching & trembling;

    it was broken, it was cracked;
    the paper swallowed me whole

    I thought about the last time I saw you
    how you were despondently numb & begging me

    the bird sitting still in the cage
    it once previously tried to escape from

    & I thought about the tenderness :
    radiantly gentle & ardent in its fierceness

    & I thought about you;
    you believed in me when I was just a shadow to myself

    my hand was trembling
    & the conviction inside me rose & sang

    & I could not write anything
    I could not say goodbye, unclasp your hand from my own

    I could not leave behind, move on
    from one I’d loved so authentically

  • A Beautiful Question of Where & When // New Release

    A Beautiful Question of Where & When by Ashlee Craft - Coverit was the fifth of May –
    I was smiling & you laughed at some joke I told,
    about the fact that it was raining out –
    I kissed you on the lips as we walked from the bus station –
    the storefronts lit up night with neon –
    watching the moon slowly rising,
    above the boardwalk
    & my hand was in yours

    A Beautiful Question of When & Where is a collection of 42 poems.

    Publish Date // February 5, 2016
    Paperback 82 Pages
    Genre // Poetry

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