Beth Cash

Beth Cash is a mental health counselor living in a rural New York State. She enjoys observing people and the natural world. Her poems have been published in literary journals Blueline, Many Waters, Mudfish, Abandoned Mine, Tiny Seed Journal, Pure Slush, Zig Zag Literary Journal, Verse Virtual and Avocet.

“Snapping Turtle,” “Terrestrial Stage of the Red-Spotted Neut,” and “Our Anniversary Before Surgery”

I float in the pond
on my blue mat,
splash away deer flies,
close my eyes in the baking sun.
The mat deflates, I am
half in the water, legs and head
cradled on the remaining air.