
Julie Schwerin (she/her – Sun Prairie, Wisconsin) is an associate editor at The Heron’s Nest (www.theheronsnest.com) and a member of the Red Moon Anthology Editorial team. Her most recent book, still growing wings, was the 2024 winner of the Backbone Press Chapbook Contest.
poems
waxing and waning –
don’t even say
“like the moon”
maybe
“like poems do”
will do
whisper-
wooed
shift
drift
in rhythm
with
willow
wands
swallow
their song
and sing
along