Charcoal smudges ashen sky
shot with silver missiles,
swept by gusty generals
commandeering the raid.
Smoke-like fog smothers russet
soil. Conifers stand at attention.
Snow settles on rocky
ridges in resignation.
“Storm Warfare” first appeared in Poaintry2: The Collision of Two Worlds.
Candace Armstrong writes poetry in the beautiful woodlands of Southern Illinois. Her work has been published in The Lyric, Journal of Modern Poetry, Distilled Lives Vol 2 & 3, Midwest Journal, California Quarterly and others online. One of her sonnets was a winner in the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest in the summer of 2017. Sometimes the poetry becomes prose and has been published in Muse, Diverse Voices, and WOW-Women On Writing online as a finalist in their spring 2017 contest. She is an avid gardener and enjoys hiking with her husband and their canine child, Murphy.
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