SAM SHARP

FALL/WINTER 2021 ISSUE #03 POET

SAM SHARP is a writer and outdoor story-hunter living in northeast Ohio. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Kent State University and is currently enjoying his first break from school in seventeen years. He is the recipient of the Thomas Freeman Nature Writing Award, and his poems have been published in several places.

ORIGINS

Sitting in grass native to Indiana

below a Japanese maple tree 

while fires in Oregon muddle the sunset.

A doe kicks up from the thicket

in front of her spotted fawn

born in Spring, conceived by Fall, prepared for winter.

We are stillness in motion.

Even clouds are immigrants 

hoping to settle into rain.