Between deep night
and soft dawn the
mist covers fields
spreading over daisies
climbing bunchberries
wetting seeds, leaves.
Milky smoke roams
back and forth
wandering voiceless
through mountains
of morning.
Whistling in fog
past sycamores
warblers seesaw
up cloudy layers
up up circling
toward heaven.
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Spectrum, three Bright Spring Press anthologies, and several Kind of a Hurricane publications. She has been nominated three times for Best of the Net. Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses.