Falling in Love

June 4, 2024

I’m happy as a clam that my poem “I Fell in Love With an Octopus” was included in Three Hearts: An Anthology of Cephalopod Poetry. Thank you to Lana Hechtman Ayers and Sierra Nelson for creating this powerful, lovely collection.

The poem first appeared in my chapbook Flame in 2012, after an experience at Sea World, way before octopuses were cool, way before they were featured and explored in documentaries and fascinating books.

Who among us would NOT fall in love with these mysterious, intelligent, curious and personable creatures from the sea?

Read the poem here.

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“Terry Godbey’s Hold Still finds its center of gravity in the poet’s experience with breast cancer. These finely made poems trace the narrative arc of illness—moving from the shock of diagnosis through treatment to the aftermath of survival, ‘everything alive,/ even hope.’ Keenly aware that there is ‘much to measure’ in this world, Godbey reminds us that one of poetry’s highest purposes is to revise trauma, and in her lines, ‘find what will save’ us." – Claudia Emerson
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Terry Godbey’s full-length book, Hold Still, was published in March 2014 by Main Street Rag, and she’s the author of three previous poetry collections, Flame, Beauty Lessons and Behind Every Door. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Poet Lore, Harpur Palate, Passages North, CALYX, Pearl, Slipstream and other literary magazines. She lives in Orlando, Fla., and works as a writer at Darden Restaurants. More…
“Terry Godbey’s poems are carefully deployed, personally revealing, and shamelessly boy-crazy. In the best of them, she leads the reader through the doors of adolescence and into the house of poetry.” — Billy Collins

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