The past few weeks I’ve been trekking around the northeast visiting family and friends for the holidays. It was fun but exhausting and I’m glad to be home.
When I returned home I discovered that my two contributor copies of the New Plains Review arrived in the mail. My poem “Starling” appears in this issue and I’m thankful to be included in such a solid publication with so many great writers.
2013 was a beautiful year and I’m grateful for all peaks and valleys and everything in between.
It’s all I have to bring today
~Emily Dickinson*
*Courtesy of The Academy of American Poets
It’s all I have to bring today–
This, and my heart beside–
This, and my heart, and all the fields–
And all the meadows wide–
Be sure you count–should I forget
Some one the sum could tell–
This, and my heart, and all the Bees
Which in the Clover dwell.
~Emily Dickinson*
*Courtesy of The Academy of American Poets
Brianna Pike 