Bio

Jane Dougherty lives and works in southwest France. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems and stories have been published in magazines and journals including Ogham Stone, the Ekphrastic Review, Black Bough Poetry, ink sweat and tears, Gleam, Nightingale & Sparrow, Green Ink and Brilliant Flash Fiction. She blogs at https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/. Her poetry chapbooks, thicker than water and birds and other feathers were published in October and November 2020.

Night sky full of moon and flying echoes,
flying echoes of unseen wingbeats,
wingbeats and calling
crane-voices,
calling
me.

Above the night meadow, the cranes are flying,
flying home to northern wetlands
navigating by the
light of
the
moon.

Beneath the moon, the crane-light casts silver
shadow-nets of feathered light,
trawling guiding stars,
singing loud
northland
songs.

I, you, we, them, the light, moon-flying
in feathered dreams, singing songs
of desert winters,
northern summers,
marshland
cool.