With today's gorgeous poem, "On Earth" by Laura Foley, Writing in a Woman's Voice concludes its active online presence. Published posts will remain online indefinitely. Thank you all for eight years and 2359 important and wonderful poems and stories.
On Earth
by Laura Foley
I find myself, this cloudy spring day,
on a quiet country road,
wild geese nesting in cow-fields
on one hand, idle blackbirds
singing in wetlands, on the other,
streams trickling free of ice,
beavers sinking calmly
into a pond’s deepest corners,
the air glad as moss for its moisture,
the sky a great arch
of pearled grey, in me,
as it is in heaven.
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Laura Foley is a bi/queer poet, author of nine poetry collections. She has
won a Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, The Common Good Books Poetry Prize, The
Poetry Box Editor's Choice Chapbook Award, the Bisexual Book Award, Atlanta
Review’s Grand Prize and others. Her work has been widely published in such
journals as Alaska Quarterly, Valparaiso Poetry Review, American Life in
Poetry, and included in numerous anthologies such as How to Love the
World and Poetry of Presence.