Heather M. Hoover’s work has appeared in Leaven and in the Southern Poetry Anthology. An Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee and teaches American literature at Milligan College.
Faith
Terror creeps into
the void of unsleep and
the what-if bird
croaks just beyond
the windowpane
sure and certain seem
shaky propositions,
until a distant howl
suggests a moon,
and if moon, then yes.