by Ellen Gerneaux Woods
Wisteria curls in delicate blooms
heads bowed in surrender
long flexible stem known to wander
and twine in unpredictable patterns
climbs the lattice he built
to control her meandering ways
the poetry of her mind
the plant outlasts the lattice
now copious lavender expressions
edge her home wander near windows
drop long blossomed branches
over the face of the dwelling
resplendent in the freedom of her
untamed imagination
Ellen Gerneaux Woods is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, and the author of two books, The Watchful Heart Recedes (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Warriors in Transition: A Memoir in Twenty-Eight Stories (Word Project Press, 2014). Her recent work appears, or will appear in The Potomac Literary Magazine, Story Sanctum, Overgrowth Literary Press, Chiron Review, Workers Write, Engine Idling, The Monterey Poetry Review, Snapdragon, Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku, among others. She was a judge for Keats Literary Competition (prose poem) from 2019 to 2021 and joined the prose staff at The MacGuffin in 2021.
January House Literary Journal 
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