Issue Thirty-Four - Summer 2019

First Cut

By Nancy Scott

He likes to mow on Wednesday mornings
and it’s in the fifties with sun
the color of good April poems.
I hear the hum of spring at last,
smile at the necessity and routine
and the green smell of the blade.

Copyright 2019 Scott

Nancy Scott 's over 800 essays and poems have appeared in magazines, literary journals, anthologies, newspapers, and as audio commentaries. Her latest chapbook appears on Amazon, The Almost Abecedarian. She won First Prize in the 2009 International Onkyo Braille Essay Contest. Recent work appears in Black Fox Literary Magazine, Braille Forum, Chrysanthemum, Kaleidoscope, One Sentence Poems, and Wordgathering.

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