CM Pickard

CM Pickard is a self-proclaimed late bloomer, living in Melbourne, Australia. Her poetry was shortlisted in The Letter Review Prize for Poetry and SWWV’s Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize, appeared in Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine, The Raven Review, and elsewhere.

“Passing Spark” and “The Wheel”

I recall light spilling through
     double-story windows;
alabaster walls and high picture rails
    of the silk flowers on a grand piano,
petals fixed in perpetual bloom
in a space confined by rigid lines
s w e p t   aside by a melody shouting freedom,
lifting bodies, loosened breath

“Broken Wing,” “No donations here,” and “White Walls”

Hopelessness—caked in dirt
and tossed aside,
like the bird
with a broken wing
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