Terri Kirby Erickson
Terri Kirby Erickson is the author of five collections of poetry, including her latest, Becoming the Blue Heron. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years to a guy who collects garish golf pants, understands math, and describes his wife as “highly entertaining.” They live in North Carolina.
— From November 2018
Poetry
Loving You Burns Like Shingles
My love for you is a sun inside my chest. / It burns like shingles, wrings tears from my eyes / like the hands of a tough old woman washing / clothes in a tin tub.
November 2018
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