Don’t look for me
in wildflower meadows
I bloom in darkness
the shade
of green thickness
I’m under the arms
of fallen redwoods
between the thighs
Those big trees
seemingly still
supporting life
I spread wide the sacred
canopy of just enough
A sunbeam replenishes
necessary energy
Sky washes clean
from cataracts of rain
fickle in their conviction
Serpents and slugs
salamanders under logs
all who thrive
without notoriety
or the bright light
of the showy
reemerge with certainty
Even the black widow
tiptoes quietly
to search
for a one-time mate
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Diane Funston co-founded a women’s poetry salon in San Diego, created a weekly poetry gathering in the high desert town of Tehachapi, CA and most recently has been the Yuba-Sutter Arts and Culture Poet-in-Residence for the past two years. It is in this role she created Poetry Square, a monthly online venue that features poets from all the world reading their work and discussing creative process. She has been published in Last Stanza, Synkronicity, California Quarterly, Whirlwind, San Diego Poetry Annual, Summation, Tule Review, Lake Affect Magazine, Meat for Tea, and other literary journals. Her first chapbook, Over the Falls was published this July 2022 from Foothills Publishing. Diane is also a visual artist in mosaic, wool felting, and collage. Her pieces have been in galleries in the Sacramento Valley.
