SIENNA TAGGART

SPRING/SUMMER 2022 ISSUE #04 POET

SIENNA TAGGART is a senior at Southern New Hampshire University, studying creative writing and English. In 2019, she studied prose and poetry in Scotland at the University of Dundee, where she wrote reviews for Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA). Taggart’s work appears in DURA and The Ekphrastic Review. She lives in El Paso, Texas, with her family and spirited pup, Ronin.

POPPIES

scatter thick, oily drops of orange and yellow paint on the side of the mountain. Limestone and silt shift—dry land priming buds, they sprout up for the prickly pear cactus to catch their delicate petals, piercing paper skin; dense pollen coating each needle until all is flushed in a burgundy rouge.