There Is No Return

the scent of never coming back
where mint and hawthorn
lean and mingle

where the road curves
towards an empty house

the touch of forgetting
in a caress of ferns
curve of stair-rail
steps going down
to the river and a drowning

I smell grief in the bank of heather
and turn away
to evade the taste of pain

When Rain Comes

I walk the river
and feel the current hard
against my legs
as I move
upstream through rapids
to where you sit
singing winter psalms
to the falling clouds

we drink sky
and write poems together

To The Slough

Comes a moment
between shadows
when I escape
slide between trees
and go unseen
to the slough
where wind
whispers endearments
to bird, reed and water

there, as light
shreds ripples
and kisses my neck
I listen to the sun

Joanna M. Weston is married, has 3 sons, and shares space with two cats. She lives on Vancouver Island. She is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, and poetry reviews and is published internationally in journals, print and online, and anthologies. She has two middle-readers, THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL and THOSE BLUE SHOES, in print.

THOSE BLUE SHOES

for ages 7-12 $12.95 Cdn.

ISBN 0-9739051-1-5

THE WILLOW-TREE GIRL

for ages 7-11 $7.95 Cdn.

ISBN 1-55352-073-4

Joanna's Web Site

Email: Joanna M. Weston

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