Laura Hannett

Laura Hannett lives in Central New York with her wonderful family. While she loves winter, she is always relieved when spring shows up. Other poems can be found at Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, Neologism, Amethyst Review and The Bluebird Word.

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► Laura Hannett's microchap story is available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

Little Songs Brought in From Outside

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Laura Hannett BioCVR

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Early Morning

The day slips in—
a girl with her
party shoes

dangling by their sling
from her fingertip,
on her toes,
in her frock,

stealing through
the east-facing
kitchen door.

It’s too early to wake
the sleepers
under white covers.

The Garden in Winter

At the edge of the bed,
by the path you must clear,
brittle bones of lavender
bristle through the snow.

Scrape them with the shovel’s edge.
That will raise the pleasant dead:

A gust from last summer,
a promise ahead—
today’s withering cold
haunted with scent.

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