Present by Joan McNerney

You gave me

five brown pods

to grow in

my garden bed.

I put them

in a glass jar

with my locket.

Five brown pods

winding through

heaven.  Weaving

night with winter

wishes for wisteria.

In a flower dress

wandering over

perfumed fields

I sleepwalk

searching for

my golden locket

and your embrace.

Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Warriors with Wings, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work.  Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations.