we were listening to the baseball game on the car radio so there’s no talking and I already knew there’s no crying in baseball way before Tom Hanks said so the loud and running voices talked strikes and balls and raced the wind from the window where the metal frame was angry hot so don’t… Continue reading Saturday morning with Lenny
Author: sherisherman
An MFA writing graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, Sheri has worked as a copywriter and freelance journalist. Having lived in every region of the United States, she grew up in Virginia and now resides in San Diego and Vermont. Sheri graduated with a B.A. in English Literature from American University in Washington D.C.. Prior to beginning her MFA, she attended the summer Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her poetry has been published in Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts and Poetry Miscellany, U-T Chattanooga. A critical essay was published in The Asheville Poetry Review as well as a literary paper in the Ljubljana University Journal in Slovenia. Her micro fiction piece, “Hospital Stay,” was published in On the Run. Her first full length book, questions, will be coming out in 2025 by Finishing Line Press. Sheri’s landscape photography and poetry feature the natural world and her interest in how time and space are experienced within our landscapes, our senses, and the human consciousness.
shadows
I take photos of shadows and steal light from the dusk of buildings that lean toward night and an alley shadows of plants that fall across sidewalks not shadows of people I have no right to their secrets contrasts stop me every time but the shades of grey keep me lookingcharcoal pewter silver slate ashen… Continue reading shadows
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fall in the garden of L’Hotel Pigonnet Aix en Provence, France two white turtle doves in a black iron cage in the middleof the garden thick with the smell of fall rain and old moss one listless in the dusk deep in retreat her dark eyes driftup as the shadows of late days and tall… Continue reading Untitled
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