two hands
become a lantern
firefly glow

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Meredith Ackroyd

Meredith Ackroyd lives in a hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia with her husband and two children. She is a graduate of the MFA program in children's literature at Hollins University, where she studied the writing of poetry for children. Her poetry has been published in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, and tinywords, among other publications. In 2021, she won a Touchstone Individual Poems Award from The Haiku Foundation.

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  1. Lovely! I will always think of this image when catching lightning bugs on a summer's night. Thank you!

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