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.

The
stars
settle,
one by one,
within the dark limbs.
Halloween night comes wishing in.
Beneath the old oaks, we wear the mask of youth again.