Learn My Strength

Learn My Strength 

by Miriam H. Harrison

it is not 

in the budding vigour of spring, 

the blooming splendour of summer 

that I learn my 

strength 

no, it is here

in autumnal dread, dressed 

in dying colour, having 

everything to lose, nothing 

to come but the bare 

and empty cold that I 

see myself—strong enough

to be vulnerable

 Writing from the boreal forests and abandoned mines of Northern Ontario, Miriam H. Harrison writes poetry and short fiction that vary between the eerie, the dreary, and the cheery. She is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.