issue 6
// poetry
Arrival
by Jenevieve Carlyn
And here comes
the rain again. Thunder rumbles
loud as this train that rolls past my window
all night long.
How I miss those mornings
when icicles clung to the eaves,
snow falling soft as a wool blanket
over the granite birdbath, the garden bed;
this tiny house, our winter palace.
Oh, but the rain.
How it always seems to know
we were thirsty for spring,
each bright leaf and puddle reflecting
our wish for something green.
Already, I miss the frogs.
about the author // Jenevieve Carlyn
| Jenevieve Carlyn is a poet and freelance educational writer in New England. In 2023, she won the Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Eco-Poetry, and the Poetry of the Sacred Prize from the Center for Interfaith Relations in Kentucky. She was shortlisted in the 2025 Artemesia Arts Contest in France and highly commended in the Mist & Mountain Competition in Scotland for her poem, ‘The Oracle at the Well,’ on the 2025 theme of peace. |
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