Bio

Linda Conroy is a retired social worker who likes to write about the complexities of human nature and our connection with the natural world. She believes it is necessary and important in the current times to remind ourselves of beauty and community, and to write daily. She is the author of two poetry collections, Ordinary Signs and Familiar Sky.

Dark
slips
in, drips
black traces
on this bay's ripples,
trifles with such intent at dusk,
dabbles with sun's rays that slide from a slow drifting cloud.
It's still as light as dark, I think, as I stand and watch the quiet rolling skyline fade.
Land nearby soaks up deeper shades of blue-green and gray.
Shadows crawl onto the walkway,
to our feet, that step
and follow
day to
deep
night.