Bio

Michael Adkins is a sergeant with the Cabell County Sheriff's Department in Huntington, West Virginia, where he met his wonderful wife Jennifer twenty years ago in a Romantic Poetry class at Marshall University (featured in the movie We Are Marshall). The couple have three great children, two wild house cats and a sweet Cocker Spaniel who likes to get her hair cut super short and pretend she's a black and white hound. Michael's poems have appeared in Et Cetera, Appalachian Heritage, Shot Glass Journal, The Lyric, and Four and Twenty.

Moon
white,
rose night,
silent height
of hanging gardens
built for an emperor's delight,
I see you in the sea when the moon and stars are bright.