Sandra Fox Murphy

Sandra Fox Murphy writes poetry, fiction, and essays, with poetry published at the Ocotillo Review, The Write Launch, Sandy River Review, Humans of the World, and in poetry anthologies. She served as Poet Laura at Tweetspeak Poetry 2024 through 2025.

“Remnants of Treasure in Bucha,” “The Sense of a Poet,” and “28 January”

At thirteen, she wanders
fields near razed homes in Bucha,
hears echoes of cries eerie
in shattered walls. She shelters
in hollows of a hospital turned home.
Once upon a time, she was a child
with eager eyes in search
of trinkets in a greenhouse—

“Kismet,” “Walking as Loren Eiseley” and “An Ominous Greeting”

We’ve had enough! We’re taking it back!
The earth once belonged to the docile and us—
the wild—but no more will you, the puffed-up,
two-legged man, raze our forests and our swamps,
no more spew your chemicals into our homes
or fell our forests and set our lairs ablaze,