six years old but isn’t sure
she wants to be a poet
we hoot and cheer
for her sweet voice at the mic

the Hudson library on LeRoy
filled with Generation Queen
ready to give love to little poets
in short skirts and ballet flats

Lois lives in an urban hermitage where trauma-informed themes flow during walks by the ocean. She is pivoting through her grandmother-era, figuring out why her bevy of adult children don’t have babies. Her poems have appeared in Alchemy Magazine, Progenitor Journal, Poetry Breakfast, 300 Days of Sun, Twisted Vine, and other literary publications. Links to her published work can be found on her website https://poeting.my.canva.site.