FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: SKY KEY Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words sky and/or key, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on March 14th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Sky Key will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, March 15th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Joan McNerney

Sewing curtains


All weekend long,

how quickly my needle

skips over hems.


We won’t have to look

at bricks anymore.


I bought a patch of

heavenly blue sky to hang

from the kitchen window.


A few yards of green

fluffy cotton in the bedroom

waving like soft meadows.


Green meadows will

keep city lights

from our eyes.


Sewing curtains all

weekend long.


Now we will have

found our own place

hidden from the world.



Skyward


Another hot day at the playground 

filled with shrieks from children 

tumbling down slides. Shouting boys 

hop on/off a whirling carousel 

as girls sing songs to jump rope. 


Waiting for my chance on the swing. 

Finally one is free as I clutch 

metallic link chains pumping myself 

up pushing pass trees feeling cool 

breezes brush over me. 


All the noise far below as I rush 

towards blue skies my feet are

walking on clouds now.


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