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

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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