Bio

Linda Conroy is a retired social worker, and a host and facilitator of writing group. She believes that poetry informs and foreshadows, and serves to honor the complexity and simplicity of human nature. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ordinary Signs and Familiar Sky.

Hear
the
wind hit
the thicket
of tall reeds, whistle
through wood, a copse of alder trees.
Hear the woodpecker tap-tap and tap once more and then
the roar of big trucks dragging dirt
to the rock, that's sat
silent since
the start
of
time.