It is often this way,
here among the berry bushes:
the labyrinth of bending branches
a blue jay hopping by,
digging deep into soil.
How he could not know
that with his wings he took away this pain.
How he did not know
that he had, for a moment, redeemed my day—
there among the berry bushes.
Alignment by Bracha K. Sharp | Garden Lavender Poetry Reed Diffuser
Bracha K. Sharp was published in the American Poetry Review, the Birmingham Arts Journal, ONE ART: a journal of poetry, Wild Roof Journal, Rogue Agent Journal, and the Thimble Literary Magazine, among others. She placed first in the national Hackney Literary Awards and was a finalist in the New Millennium Writings Poetry Awards. She received a 2019 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medal for her debut picture book. As her writing notebooks seem to end up finding their way into different rooms, she is always finding both old pieces to revisit and new inspirations to work with. She is a current reader for the Baltimore Review.
