Barbara Marie Minney
Barbara Marie Minney, a seventh generation Appalachian, is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, guest reader/editor, and quiet activist. Barbara’s poetry and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and publications. Her poetry has also been translated into Spanish. Barbara is the author of four poetry collections: If There’s No Heaven (winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and an Akron Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book of 2020), the Poetic Memoir Chapbook Challenge (2021), Dance Naked With God (2023), and A Woman in Progress (2024). Follow Barbara online at https://www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.
SAPPHO SUNRISE
Seamstress of whimsy and desire
in a short diaphanous dress,
duskiness gathers
between tumultuous breasts,
caressed by my beloved
in a bed of ferns,
rapturous smile radiant
in the heat of dawning.
