Tag: Dara-Lyn Shrager

  • Side A Poetry: “California” by Dara-Lyn Shrager

    Side A Poetry: “California” by Dara-Lyn Shrager

    California The weeping cherry trees behind our housewere once no taller than kindergarten boyscolliding plastic trucks on a carpet of EZ grass.Now, giant leaf canopies block the sun.There’s just the lone dog out there, chasingsudden whips of wind. Deep beneath my collar,I feel cold. Hungry for those half-eatenbowls of Cheerios left bloating by the kitchensink.…