Silvered Lining

I drift. I pause.
My erratic flight--
overly emotional, frail.
​
That ordeal and all that followed
have aged me--
almost perfectly.

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Michele Mekel

Living in Happy Valley, Michele Mekel wears many hats of her choosing: writer and editor; educator and bioethicist; poetess and creatrix; cat herder and chief can opener; witch and woman; and, above all, human. With more than 150 poems published, her work has appeared in various
academic and creative publications, including being featured on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac and nominated for Best of the Net. Her poetry has also been translated into Cherokee. She served as co-principal investigator for the Viral Imaginations: COVID-19 project
(viralimaginations.psu.edu).​