The Voices Project
Follow us
  • POETRY LIBRARY
  • ABOUT
  • SUBMIT
  • RESOURCES

My Gray Child (excerpt)~ By ​John McCluskey

8/3/2020

0 Comments

 
i prefer snow
on easters in march
nice to think
of colored eggs
in last nest
of winter’s white womb
what better reason
to miss a family holiday
   then again
 
snow might have made
our hospital trip
dangerous passage…
 
and we did
need to leave
our specimen
(our child)
 
to identify
which wind
shook fresh fruit
from our tree
   as if a miscarriage
   would excuse me
had i decided it was too soon
anyway to fall in love
with    this child
 

Author Bio:
​John McCluskey ​is a writer and photographer living in Connecticut.  John had his first novel,  A Moment of Fireflies, published in 2017 by New Plains Press and has had poetry, short fiction, and photography published in numerous international literary journals and anthologies over the years, including Light, New Plains Review, Jerry Jazz Musician, Sonic Boom, 3 rdWednesday, The RavensPerch, Quill & Parchment (featured poet June 2013), The Red Booth Review, Otoliths, London Photo Festival, One For The Road (anthology), and  Cradle Songs: an Anthology of Poems on Motherhood (2013 International Book Award winner and one of 4 finalists for the NIEA). John’s poem “My Gray Child” from  Cradle Songs was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, resides in the public and private collection of the Boston Public Library, and was read at a poetry reading in Taos, New Mexico by actor Tony Huston.The poem appears in full in John’s poetry book published in 2019,  I Will Listen If You Tell Me Who I Am.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Poet Search

    by last name

    Archives

    January 2023
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    November 2012

    RSS Feed

Contact The Voices Project: editors@thevoicesproject.org