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.
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.
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