Jeanne Allison

Jeanne Allison lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughter. She loves to read and write poetry in stolen and in-between moments. Her work has appeared in the Liminal Women Anthology (forthcoming), Skylight47 (an Irish literary journal), Light: A Journal of Photography & Poetry, Under the Basho, and the Haiku Path in the Holmes County Open Air Art Museum.

“When Looking Out the Back Window,” “After the Quarrel” and “In the Pause”

at night I can’t see the owl I hear
but a faint outline
of the sandbox on the porch
a playground for unwanted crickets
who nestle to the bottom
waiting to surprise me one summer day
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