Poet Profile

Laura Sherman

Laura Sherman, also known as The Friendly Ghostwriter, helped create the series Quicksilver for the Haiku Foundation’s blog Troutswirl in 2010. In 2012 she published Chess Is Child’s Play, a book designed to help parents teach their young children to play chess. Today, Laura homeschools her three children on the road in their RV, while helping clients write and publish their book projects.

scent of rain
we look for toads
in the dark

Lake Cherokee an echo in each breaststroke

Honeymoon Island―
she brushes sand off
the chessboard

Credits:

"scent of rain" - haijinx IV:I (2011); "Lake Cherokee" - Acorn Issue #26 (2011); "Honeymoon Island" - The Heron’s Nest Vol. XIII, No. 3: September 2011.