sap rise
the long gleam
of…
Author: 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.
a river stone
in my pocket…
soft light rings
the mouth…
wildflower honey
the blackberry…
evening shift
the dip and…
subtexts
we cross the invisible…
twining the tendrils
of …
lifting my gaze
to the last…
two hands
become a lantern…