Margaret Kiernan is 2021 Best of The Net Nominee for Creative Non-Fiction.

She writes fiction, non-fiction essay, memoir, and poetry. She has had poetry and prose published, in hardback, in e-book, online. Literary Journals and magazines.

She has multiple stories and poems in anthology collections and cultural publications…..

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Shriven at Dusk

Wind-torn and bent
The drooped branches
Dip to the ground
Search for the aromatic roots
As the rising pink moon in Libra waxes over
Voices of grief, executed on the eastern wind
A frequency of doom.
While the bullish gluttonous Finch
Eats greedily in the plum tree
Evades the dull cat, mouth agape, watching from below.
As the evening light dissolves
It evens out the land.