Julie Desmond
Julie Desmond (she/hers) is a career coach with a thing for Irish writing, living in the heart of the Great Southwest. Find her books online and her poetry at Open Arts Forum, Lower Stumpf Lake Review, Diotima, Down in the Dirt, Classical Poetry Society, and at postsecret.com.
Poetry, PoetryIndelible (Thanksgiving)
You are here Not here, but still here like a meandering path or a bend in the beach or sun coming up over mountains.…
PoetryDesert Wonder
I don’t understand the desert the considered staging of stones the rise and fall of trails the suspicious critters ogling us from all those…
PoetryGuests
We call it the cabin this home of ours Tucked in between the lake and a snaking Half mile driveway we call a road…
PoetryBorn
Prompt: 5 minutes to write about something being born. Five minutes? To give birth? It doesn’t take that long. A crown appears, a head…
PoetrySisters Coffee
I let the screen door close behind me And the rest of the day was quite easy. At the dining room table Covered with…
PoetryNeanderthals All
Most days Shuffling behind him, collecting his socks, She regards his three heads and Two left feet, bedhead breath, beer belly, Broken bones and…
PoetryLow Hanging Fruit
For Kelly, whose tomatoes never made it to Rachael Forgive me I have taken the tomatoes I was supposed to pass on to your…