Tuesday, August 03, 2021

New Poetry by Sherry Poff










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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