Close to the city, my friend and I see a peacock. Many iridescent eyes. He seems to understand our worries then slips beyond the brambles.
in my dream
the yogi signals:
go through this wall
Wilderness waits for the great thinning to dissipate, while children create new maps from sorrow.
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Laurie Wilcox-Meyer’s Circling Silence was published in 2018 by Finishing Line Press. Of Wilderness and Flight was published in 2019 by FootHills Publishing. Conversation In The Key Of Blue, her latest collection, was published by Main Street Rag Publishing in 2020. Laurie Wilcox-Meyer lives in the French Broad River basin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she often spots bears while hiking and meditating about her next poem.
