FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: GRASS LEAVES Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words grass and/or leaves, totaling up to 150 lines in length, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PST on January 17th. No PDF's please. Color artwork is also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Grass Leaves will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, January 25th between 3 and 5 pm PST

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Michelle Smith

Morning Decks & Decorum


Fresh cut blades

of green grass stacked

on yards like neighborhood

houses. Awakens my olfactory

senses. Feeling


squishiness of the piled

high hill dancing in spring

coolness between my toes.

Dew mistiness chills the morning


cold. Cursing my forgotten

jacket haunting

out the door. Spring


breeze blowing in

my curly coil sepia

hair, absorbing ECO gel,

spongy as my vintage fingers

adorn it. Hold. Fresh


cut grass reminds me

of 52 Pick Up tossing

like cards and confetti

tussling down on

my head,

my hair,

my neck. Resting


on my shoulders

landing and celebrating

my life, not green


with envy, the old

is gone. Now anew

there's always a way;

hope springs eternal. Dew


mistiness chill

the morning, rousing

my soul, bold!


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Michelle Smith

Morning Decks & Decorum Fresh cut blades of green grass stacked on yards like neighborhood houses. Awakens my olfactory senses. Feeling ...