nearby the wild geese
click their solitary beat
by the wind ice trees



Phibby Venable

is an Appalachian poet and writer. Her work appears in numerous anthologies, magazines, journals, and ezines, nationally and internationally, including: Southern Ocean Review, Clinch Mountain Review, Poetrybay, the Appalachian Review, 2River, the Sow's Ear Review, and the Circle Magazine. She has three chapbooks, On White Top, Indian Wind Song, and What I Saw Beautiful. Two full collections, Blue Cold Morning, and Blue Water Poems, are available at Amazon. She lives in the Appalachian mountains of Southwest, Virginia, in the small historical town of Abingdon.


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