Moving Forward

squeezed between the backyards of two split levels

sits a small cemetery

three stones and a crumbling angel

a child clings to the cemetery’s fence

struggling to pedal her bike

while learning to balance on two wheels

 

 

 

Hannah Jane Weber’s poetry has been published in I-70 Review, Plainsongs, The Poeming Pigeon, Ponder Review, Rosebud, Slippery Elm and more. She is also a recipient of the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize. Hannah Jane is a children’s librarian and tennis enthusiast. She lives with her husband and their dogs.