She came today,
across the garden,
walking paths
like her ancestors.
Before houses.
Before humans.
Treading old ways,
drawn by instinct,
carrying her pups
within her
swollen womb.
—
Mike Everley has written poetry for many years and been published in, amongst other places, the Anglo Welsh Review, Cambrensis, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Outposts, Cardiff Poet, Undiscovered Poet, Entheoscope, Poetry News (Poetry Society), Lothlorien Online Poetry Journal, 5-7-5 Haiku Online Journal, The Bamboo Hut, Dark Poets Club, Green Ink Poetry, Coop, Wildfire Words, The Closed Eye, These Pages Sing, The Seventh Quarry and Acumen. He was a member of both the NUJ and the Society of Authors before retirement.
