Bio

Jane Dougherty lives and works in southwest France. A Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems and stories have been published in magazines and journals including Ogham Stone, the Ekphrastic Review, Black Bough Poetry, ink sweat and tears, Gleam, Nightingale & Sparrow, Green Ink and Brilliant Flash Fiction. She blogs at https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/. Her poetry chapbooks, thicker than water and birds and other feathers were published in October and November 2020.

This way runs the blackberry path,
hedged with blackbirds' songs,
threaded rose
strung with
curved
thorns.

Hedged with blackbirds' songs,
I never
knew light
so
pure,

threaded rose
so sweet,
a
harp,

strung with
notes
of

curved
thorns.