SIENNA TAGGART

FALL/WINTER 2022 ISSUE #05 FEATURE POET

Sienna Taggart graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and English with the desire to dedicate her life to working with the written word. Her writing centers on the observations of nature and has appeared in Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA), The Ekphrastic Review, Blue Bottle Journal, and Humana Obscura. Taggart lives in the hot desert that is El Paso, Texas, with her family and animals.

WINTER ON THE COAST AT DAWN

Wool light—
silver streaks through the tree line
and tawny spumes of frost
spill over cracks and creases
of empty tidepools.

Snow builds as flecks of pale ash
on the coast silt, bruising blue
as it drifts in intervals
over the squally spray

only to be drawn under
by the green light of the sea.