Sunshine splashes out across green lawns;
Wreath petals, blown by breezes, fall
Down to sprinkle maintained plots
With tasteful accents. Shorn
Dandelions scrawl
Unspoken thoughts.
It’s all gone,
It’s all
…not.
Juleigh Howard-Hobson’s poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, Noir Nation, L’Éphémère, Able Muse, The Lyric, Weaving The Terrain (Dos Gatos), Poem Revised (Marion Street), Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea (Great Weather for Media), Lift Every Voice (Kissing Dynamite), and other venues. A Million Writers Award “Notable Story” writer, nominations include “Best of the Net”, The Pushcart Prize and The Rhysling Award. She lives off grid in the Pacific Northwest next to a huge woods filled with shadows and ghosts.