October
the leafless trees
unburdened by sheer ferocity,
churning breath of the storm
gone now,
with only a solemn drip
trickle of water
waterfalls in places where yesterday they weren’t.
Virginia Archer is the pen name of Jean Mederick, who has a BEng.Hons. Degree in Civil Engineering with Architecture from the University of Leeds, England. She was born in the UK, from Saint Lucian and English parentage, but has lived most of her life on the tropical island paradise of Saint Lucia, where she resides with her teenage daughter. She has published four volumes of poetry, her first being “Tangerine Skies” and including “Somewhere In Between”, “Of Dead Romance And Papercuts” and “How To Forget To Breathe”, all available on Amazon. Follow on Instagram @virginia.archer. poetry