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Tag: Cardinal song

Day #3 National Poetry Month

The return of birdsong marks spring mornings in Central New York.

I often hear the Cardinal. Click on this link to hear it, too.

4/3/23

it breaks the silence
the sudden chirp of birdsong
sun lights my window

©Janice Scully 2023

Author janice.scullyPosted on April 3, 2023April 4, 2023Tags Cardinal song, Haiku, NPM

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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

My poem, First Responder, is in this book, edited by Miranda Paul and illustrated by Marlena Myles. My thanks to both.

Thanku: Poems of Gratitude

Thank you, Bridget Magee for including my poems in your 2021 anthology:

My poem "Kick" has been included in THINGS WE DO, a 2021 anthology for ages 4-6, edited by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell.

Thank you for visiting Salt City Verse!

My poem If A Snowstorm Came to Town can be found in this anthology by Irene Latham and Charles Waters.

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