sap rise
the long gleam
of the river
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
chrysalis
soft light rings
the mouth of a vase
spring rain
wildflower honey
the blackberry underside
of a cloud
evening shift
the dip and rise
of goldfinches
subtexts
we cross the invisible
flight lines of bees
twining the tendrils
of peas through the trellis
the sweep of the sun
lifting my gaze
to the last of the light
chickadee song
two hands
become a lantern
firefly glow