Bio: Kerri Nicole McCaffrey taught English for many years—most recently at Lake Forest Academy on Chicago’s North Shore. While teaching, a huge goal she always had was to conduct poetry clubs— in order to attract more young people to express themselves through verse. Three of her own favorite poets are Jane Kenyon, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath—all of whom have helped Kerri write better and navigate her way through life. A lover of the outdoors, Kerri hopes to one day hike the Appalachian Trail.

To Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton

In the era you died— desiccated and insect eaten plunging thirty stories or more I parachuted away a small redwood seed gliding to safety. Then, I sadly watched you splinter in giant concussions even as the pillow of alluvial soil tried to save you not realizing you were a falling coffin– a wooden corpse. And I grew in the nutrients…