Haiku #8, Celebrating NPM – SALT CITY VERSE

California Dreaming?

Several songs come to mind at the Santa Cruz Pier.

Santa Cruz Pier

The Pacific swirls and roars.
Seals sleep, well fed, exhausted,
under the boardwalk.

© Janice Scully 2023

About Me and Salt City Verse

My name is Janice Scully. Welcome! I live in Upstate N.Y., but as a child I grew up downstate in a small town not far from New York City. My four siblings and I lived upstairs over our family restaurant. Besides writing, reading and all libraries, I love to create things with fabric and yarn. I also love good food.

This site is about poetry for young people. It’s named after where I live, near Syracuse, N.Y. It used to be called the salt city because salt water bubbled up from the ground, sort of like where poems come from, somewhere deep. I hope to share my favorite poets and poems.

About me and Salt City Verse

Welcome! My name is Janice Scully and I write for young people. I live near Syracuse, N.Y. which used to be known as Salt City. Salt water, once used to make valuable salt, bubbled up from the ground here, in a way, like poems bubble up from deep places. Here you will find posts about my favorite poets and poems.

I love reading, books, and all libraries. I also love fabric, yarn and food. The later, no doubt, comes from living as a child over my family’s busy restaurant.

I am a physician, but in 2010 earned an MFA in Writing for Children from Vermont College. I am grateful for the faculty and friends I met there and now focus on writing and supporting children’s literature.

janice.scully@gmail.com

@janice_scully

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