Ellen Stone teaches at Community High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her poetry collection, The Solid Living World, won the 2013 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press chapbook contest. Ellen’s poems have also appeared in Dunes Review, Melancholy Hyperbole and in the anthology, Uncommon Core, published by Red Beard Press.
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Melancholy Hyperbole 
Ellen, this is gorgeous and yes, melancholy in that perfect way.
Love the “rise, settle, rise.”
Expressway grass. I’ve never seen that phrase or thought it. But of course!