Taunja Thomson

Taunja Thomson’s work has been featured in several journals, most recently in Midsummer House Dream and Bare Hill Review. She co-authored Frame and Mount the Sky (2017) and is the author of Strum and Lull (2019) and The Profusion (2019). Her full-length collection, Plunge, was published in 2023 by UnCollected Press. Her poem “Mr. God Comes to Understand Himself” won first place in The Ekphrastic Review’s “Tickle Me Pink” contest in August of 2025.

“Advice for Beginner Poets,” “Asters & Irises,” and “Autumn is a tiger”

Conjure a faun in the middle of field.

There’s a cabin in the distance, homespun
& brown, & the thick-torso’d wild turkeys
march a few feet away, leaving dinosaur
tracks in their wake.

Don’t let any of this stop you.

“The Choosing,” “Raveled,” and “Last Judgment”

Fly from that house
clad in cotton dress & aviator cap
with its cracked leather—you knew you’d need it
someday.

Ride mistral through
a sky casting its greys over a landscape
brown with mud & blonde with barley spikes
bending.