Barbara A. Meier

To the Women of a Certain Age

who stop on snowy evenings,
wishing it was a sunny beach,
desiring that the snow in our boots

would turn to sand, and that the flakes
were the sea spray upon our face:
The beach is magnificent, roaring with waves
that beat the sand into even smaller pieces.



Barbara A. Meier is a retired teacher who now works in a second grade classroom as a paraprofessional in Lincoln, KS.  Her recent publications include: The Mersey Review, Piker Press, The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review,  DarkWinter Press and Literary Magazine, and Beach Chair Press. Her poem “The Day of the Grizzly Dead” has been nominated for The Best of the Net. She has three chapbooks published: Wildfire LAL 6, from Ghost City Press, Getting Through Gold Beach, from Writing Knights Press, and Sylvan Grove, from The Poetry Box. She loves all things ancient.