Pups

Pups




river otters race
up a winter water slide—
untried toboggans
teeter on the taste of bliss
over crust of uncut snow

~Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming


Elizabeth Spencer Spragins



Elizabeth Spencer Spragins is a poet, writer, and editor who taught in North Carolina community colleges for more than a decade before returning to her home state of Virginia. Her tanka and bardic verse in the Celtic style have been published in England, Scotland, Canada, Indonesia, India, Mauritius, and the United States. The Language of Bones, a collection of her bardic verse, is scheduled for publication by Kelsay Books in fall 2019.