Patience

Elizabeth Trepanier | poetry

Elizabeth is in her final semester of the master’s in liberal studies degree and plans to graduate in Spring 2021. Elizabeth is an avid reader, writer, and traveler whose goal is to become a published author. Her academic interests include critical media, narratology, fiction, and select topics in European history related to cultural influences, literature, and art.

Patience rests at the foot of trees

curled in nests

of soft, mossy dreams.

It gazes up through dappled light

pliant from the warm summer’s night

lying among the columned moon beams

with a languid smile

hidden beneath nature’s green eaves.