“The Real Thing” by Janice Canerdy


Books with spring settings
I read on cold winter days
are stacked on the shelf.
Now wondrous spring, I embrace.
There’s nothing like the real thing.


Janice Canerdy is a retired high-school English teacher from Potts Camp, Mississippi. She has been writing poems for decades and has been published frequently. She writes mostly rhymed, metered poetry but enjoys reading all types of poems.