Cathy Hailey
Anastasis
The magnetic pull of a thousand reaching hands awaiting midnight candlelight—
no match for the clutch of dusk’s cocoon, comforting yet constricting, a half-light.
© 2019 Cathy Hailey
Cathy Hailey is a teacher of English and Creative Writing for Prince William County Public Schools, an adjunct instructor for Northern Virginia Community College through Dual Enrollment, and a part-time instructor in the Johns Hopkins M.A. in Teaching Writing Program. She sponsors Woodbridge Senior High School’s Eddas literary/art magazine, which is a three-time winner of the Col. Charles E. Savedge Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholastic Journalism given by the Virginia High School League (VHSL). Her poetry has been published in What Peaches & What Penumbras: An Anthology of Grocery Lists, The Journal of the Virginia Writing Project, the 2016 Poetry Virginia Review and in the Springtime in Winter and Peace and Identity anthologies created through Poetry Society of Virginia (PSV) collaborations with visual artists and musicians. She is the PSV Poetry in the Schools Coordinator and a member of the Prince William Poet Laureate Circle. She is an organizer for In the Company of Laureates, an October gathering of local, state, and regional poets laureate, held biennially in Prince William County.
Joy Mar
Furrowed
With brows furrowed into rows, backs bent, calloused hands bare
silently, together, their shovels pierce the tyranny of the soil.
© 2019 Joy Mar
30 for 30 is sponsored by Potomac Review
Thank *you*, Mike. I was thrilled that three of my students in ENGL 272DL participated in your project. Plus, it’s always good to see my friends’ poems and meet new poets.
You’re welcome