Bio

Michael Adkins is a sergeant with the Cabell County Sheriff's Department in Huntington, West Virginia, where he met his wonderful wife Jennifer twenty years ago in a Romantic Poetry class at Marshall University (featured in the movie We Are Marshall). The couple have three great children, two wild house cats and a sweet Cocker Spaniel who likes to get her hair cut super short and pretend she's a black and white hound. Michael's poems have appeared in Et Cetera, Appalachian Heritage, Shot Glass Journal, The Lyric, and Four and Twenty.

Now
a
woman
dressed in fire
walks along the night
with every ruddy rose of dreams
falling from her elegant hands.
Oh, lady, come close.
Dreams grow cold
without
your
flame.