Dorothy Neagle

Dorothy Neagle lives and writes in Hastings on Hudson, New York. She has studied writing most recently at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and at the Unterberg Poetry Center. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Nasiona, Mythos Magazine, and is forthcoming in Minerva Rising and in the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. She is currently revising a memoir and working on a collection of poetry.

“Approaching Middle Age” and “The Climber”

Last night the new moon broke open across my shoulders.
Then dawn came through the trees
in pinpoints of varying sizes
like starlight glowing among the leaves.