Noontime perfumed
berries new grass.
Beneath honey locust
through hushed woods
we found a spring.
My feet throb over
hard pebbles. Threading
soft water the sun
dresses us in golden
sequins.....
Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Camel Saloon, Blueline, Poppy Road Review, Spectrum, three Bright Hills Press Anthologies and several Kind of A Hurricane Publications. Poet and Geek recognized her work as their best poem of 2013. She has been nominated three times for Best of the Net. Four of her books have been published by fine literary presses and four e-books have also been produced.
