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| Issue 28: | April 2025 |
| Poem: | 62 words |
By Tamara Madison
Overcast
—February 18, 2025
Along the chilly streets with dog I tread, pearl-gray meringue overhead, heart a caged stone, mind gone charcoal-black with dread. Crows swoop and caw their news. To the east the rising sun emits a gasp of gold and then the cloudy lid slams shut. From a roof, a lone gray dove remarks, Oh WOW, Oh WOW Oh WOW.
Tamara Madison
is the author of the chapbooks The Belly Remembers (Pearl Editions) and Along the Fault Line (Picture Show Press, 2022), and three full-length volumes of poetry: Wild Domestic and Moraine (Pearl Editions, 2011 and 2017) and Morpheus Dips His Oar (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2023). Her work has appeared in A Year of Being Here, Chiron Review, ONE ART, Shelia-Na-Gig, The Worcester Review, Writer’s Almanac, Your Daily Poem and many other publications.
Author’s website: https://tamaramadisonpoetry.com
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