Nicole Braden-Johnson

Nicole Braden-Johnson has published poems in her monthly poetry column "Unheard Melodies," featured in the local publication The Visitor, as well as in the undergraduate art journal Spires of her alma mater, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Additionally, she has a poem co-authored with her husband, David, forthcoming in The Mind's Eye, MCLA's Liberal Arts Journal. In 2016 she received her M.A. in English from Westfield State University. She lives in Conway, MA with her husband and numerous companion animals.

“Hidden Nature”, “It Could Happen To You” and “Of One Mind?”

Hidden Nature Heraclitus said, “Nature likes to hide itself.” At the heavy sound of human feet, Chipmunks scurry for leafy cover, While snails recoil and pretend not to be home, And moles find refuge beneath the sod.