The June Featured Poet is Meg Smith

Please feel free to email Meg at:

megsmithwriter675@gmail.com

THE HARE, A SHAPE-SHIFTER

Mark this—
leaping from meadow
into night,
and some brawl,
all for spring’s tidings.
None are forged in sun
although they try,
reaching not quite enough.
Both, slashing,
both, staggering,
to become what, then—
a poem, a song,
a moment at the road’s end?
Spring bears all,
and spares none.
Leap higher still,
but earth covers earth.

MARSH SPIRITS

There is knowing,
and forgetting.
Even in the bleak
blue waters,
separated from land
by thicket and ice,
the swan knows.
Alone, it keeps memory—
the burdens of being two,
now only a reflection
of one.
As well, geese dark
in the reeds—
this time, only
shadow.
Among ripples,
reflection and shadow,
they collect and know.

THE GROOM OF THE MOSS

Now is some time
we might talk of lovers,
so cataloged,
although we might
be well as scattered
in fury like leaves on a brook.
But, we, are not so done,
or undone.
There are such husbands,
who grow in the firmament
of decaying wood,
a tree lapsing into ground,
and becoming more
than it once was when fortified.
Green, in small waves, does come.
There is something built.
Well, there begins over,
a new forest. Such is the power
of memory forged from such
matrimony, fallen.

Meg Smith is a poet, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poetry has appeared or has been accepted to The Cafe Review, Star*Line, Illumen, Pudding, Dreams & Nightmares, and more.

She is a former board member of Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!, which produces an annual festival in honor of Lowell native, Jack Kerouac.

She also produces the Edgar Allan Poe show, dedicated to Poe’s presence in Lowell.

She has recently published a second poetry book, Dear Deepest Ghost, available through Amazon.