Sonja Johanson

Shining

                                                                                                       Every
window

                                                                                              silver
                                                      and
                                                                                innumerable
                                   stood       
                                                                                   free

erasure, Anne Rice, Taltos, pg. 310
arils, Japanese Spindle, Euonymous japonica


Sonja Johanson holds an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and has recent work appearing in American Life in Poetry, The Cincinnati Review, and Sugar House Review. Her most recent chapbook is Trees in Our Dooryards (Redbird Chapbooks). Sonja divides her time between work in Massachusetts and her home in the mountains of western Maine. Follow her at www.sonjajohanson.net.