Space Flowers

Something reaches,
but not for air; stars and stars
in a darkness
only imagined.
Still, it remains my dream,
on Earth, and somewhere: Green, and sure, and ready
to blaze, to bloom, a sun on fire,
with the promise to grow again.

Meg Smith is a poet, writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living in Lowell, Mass. Her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding, Poetry Bay,The Horror Zine, Silver Blade, Raven Cage, The Blue Hour Anthology, and many more.

Her short fiction collection The Plague Confessor is available at her online store! megsmithwriter.com

Her most recent poetry books, Pretty Green Thorns, Night's Island, This Scarlet Dancing and Dear Deepest Ghost, are available on Amazon.

Find more by Meg Smith in the Author Index.