Laurie Wilcox-Meyer

What Will It Be?

Details in myopic millimeters, steel beams loom. Back of the house 
to be mostly glass. In the beginning no nails. Land for turkeys to roam. 
The whole left whole and green.

snaking
into bluebird’s house
April, again cruel 

Steel pins and severed nerves, my homebase-left-foot. Knee 
scooter rented. A greater mystery’s at hand, granular and cosmic.

shifting sands
the spin of earth
we tilt away from 

Across the street, a field. Pistils and stamens augment the wild. 
Take me there. 

a squirrel’s 
hidden treasures
daylight savings 

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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 haibun published recently in Artemis Journal, #FemkuMag, Pine, Mountain, Sand & Gravel, and Drifting Sands Journal.

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