Eden was where we escaped to Bleeding and breath-choked Marsh ponds fashioned a poultice Fine mud and reed down To smear on our wounds The trees and plants bent like good doctors Released spores to calm fevers And air busied itself Repairing our lung cells At night as we slept at stream side Liquid slid […]
Laura Sheahen
Laura Sheahen has published poems in Four Way Review, In Posse Review, Stirring, Orbis, and other journals in the US and UK. Author of the poetry book “The Genie Smiles,” she is currently in Tunisia researching North African poetry.