Faith Thompson

Dove Gray

Dove gray walls and softest yellow light. 
White roses in a vase of eggshell white

Set high beyond the reach of little hands.
Framed photographs of moor and meadowland.

A rocking chair with cushions of blue silk,
And nursery smells of lavender and milk. 

Embroidered stars, embroidered sun and moon.
A large oak crib that’s seen no sleeping. Soon

The lavender will lose its potency
In preparation and in vacancy.



Faith Thompson’s work has been published in various magazines, including Alba, The Road Not Taken, Mezzo Cammin, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and The Lyric. She is the 2022 recipient of the Lyric Prize and the Leslie Mellichamp Prize. She received her MFA at Georgia College & State University. Her first poetry collection, Harmony & Counterpoint, was published by Kelsay Books in the summer of 2023. You can find her work at fairingforward.wordpress.com.