Poetry by Joyce Miller
The last leaves fall
from the weeping cherry—
the farmer sees the city.
Blade of green
sharp with spring,
in winter snow.
A firefly alights a light
of bioluminescence on
a moonless night in June.
Joyce Miller served as a senior editorial assistant for The Cincinnati Review and her work has been published in The RavensPerch, Crack the Spine, Serving House Journal, aaduna, and Venture; Ohio Voices. She currently teaches Italian in the Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Cincinnati.
