Light, Shining
Out of the coal-seamed earth
layers of leaf-fall
April's tender buds
July's verdant green
blackened, compressed
out of the darkness
of wooded roadsides
cooled by streaming air,
water oozing chill
from beneath flat rocks
clean as stars in a dusky sky,
they rise on slender stems:
daisies and Queen Anne's lace,
nodding like sages
in the wake
of our passing.
- © Sherry Poff 2021
Sherry Poff grew up in the hills of West Virginia. She now lives and writes in and around Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she interacts with a large group of students and family members. Sherry holds an MA in Writing from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is a member of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous online and print publications. Sherry’s short poem “Resurrection,” published in Liquid Imagination, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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