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Poetry by M.L. Lyons
Pine trees of winter
Burlap warms the cedars
Deer licks green needles.
Year end ritual
Snow geese cry fleeing winter
Beeswax candles glow
M. L. Lyons is a poet, writer, editor and co-editor of the anthology, “Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workplace.” Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart and her poetry collection, “Songs from the Multiverse” is forthcoming in 2025 from Finishing Line Press.
Poetry by Suzy Harris
Every wet leaf underfoot
gives a little sigh. Sounds like
squish squish. And every
almost bare branch bends down
in supplication. December
begins quietly, not yet wanting
to slam the door on the old year.
We have four more weeks
to finish the unfinished,
care for the untended,
seek the sublime. Each day
unfolds like the first paragraph
of a new story. We don’t know
how it ends.
Suzy Harris lives in Portland, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Willawaw Journal, and Wild Greens, among other journals and anthologies. Her chapbook Listening in the Dark, about hearing loss and learning to hear again with cochlear implants, was published by The Poetry Box in February 2023.
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