Sheila-Na-Gig Inc.

A poetry journal & small press

Julie Schwerin

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.

creative impasse

poems
waxing and waning –
don’t even say
“like the moon”
maybe
“like poems do”
will do

Swifts

whisper-
wooed

shift
drift

in rhythm
with

willow
wands

swallow
their song

and sing
along


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