Sky and trees touching
to bend light
their branches and boughs
bowing to the earth
as wind blows
softly to a breeze
of uplift and down
the talking whispering
touching there is the forest
of rocks and sounds
all the creatures
outside my doors
beyond my windows
opening wonders.
Poem by Lynne Goldsmith
Lynne’s first book, Secondary Cicatrices, won the 2018 Halcyon Poetry Prize, a 2019 American Book Fest Finalist Award, a 2020 Human Relations Indie Gold Winner Book Award, and a 2020 International Book Finalist Award. Her poetry has been published in Backchannels Journal, Thimble Literary Magazine, All-Creatures.Org, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, The Environmental Magazine, Red Planet Magazine, Interalia Magazine, among others.