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Scarecrow in Female
Meg Smith
Such
is my skin,
winding,
a
body bound, in
cloth, and straw,
and
looking over
these fine
corn
fields --
with nothing
to
regard dark
wings.
We
might share a
joke, when the sky binds
us so.
Meg Smith is a writer, journalist, dancer and events producer living
in Lowell, Mass. In addition to previously appearing in Black Petals, her poetry
has appeared in The Cafe Review, Pudding,
Poetry Bay, The Horror Zine, Bewildering Stories, Strange Horizons, Dreams
& Nightmares, The Dwarf Stars anthology of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Poetry Association, and many more.
She is the author of five poetry books, and her first collection
of short fiction, The Plague Confessor,
is due out in fall 2020. She welcomes visits to megsmithwriter.com.
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