Keepstake by Joan McNerney

There are too many
clocks and not enough
time.  I will take
and keep this minute
for myself.

This minute
of mercury
this swift night
as sleepless stars
glide through
the sky inaerial ballet.

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Joan McNerney’s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze, Blueline, and Halcyon Days.  Four Bright Hills Press Anthologies, several Poppy Road Review Journals, and numerous Kind of A Hurricane Press Publications have accepted her work.  Her latest title is Having Lunch with the Sky and she has four Best of the Net nominations.