Laurie Wilcox-Meyer

Immersed

In the attic, she hands a baptismal certificate to her sister. “Here is your ticket to heaven. I can’t find mine.” Their mother is long gone so she’ll never know if she’s been saved. The stairway to heaven is daring her to let go. On top of a tattered box, a dusty Buddha smiles.

empty house
sycamore leaves
on the hidden path

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About the Author

Laurie Wilcox-Meyer lives in the French Broad River basin in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. Her third poetry collection, Conversation In the Key Of Blue, appeared in 2020. She has been published in Modern Haiku, tsuri-doro, and Failed Haiku. Senryu are forthcoming in #FemkuMag.