Septuagenarian Abecedarian Love Song
By Tina Blade
“Superimpose over all of this a photo of our younger selves— / tight smiles and a greedy earnestness that nearly // undid us—”
Tina Blade
Tina Blade’s work was selected for publication in Best New Poets of 2023; she is also a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her poems have appeared in Apple Valley Review, Green Hill Literary Lantern, The Moth, Bracken, Sweet Tree Review, Pontoon Poetry, Calyx, Mid-American Review, Seattle’s 2025 Poetry in Public program, and elsewhere. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon and currently lives in Duvall, Washington, just east of Seattle in the Snoqualmie River Valley.