Insect Thermometer
“Earth work. Scum in clay pots. The sun booms bass clarinet. A lemon sweats its silence on the / dirt.”
Cheyenne Taylor Sawaya
Cheyenne Taylor Sawaya holds an MFA from the University of Florida, as well as a BA & MA in English from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She currently earns her living managing a team of writers at a marketing agency and lives with her husband, daughter, and mother in Birmingham, AL. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume X: Alabama (Texas Review Press, 2023), Understory, Vol. 2 (Loblolly Press, 2026), The Times Literary Supplement, Pleiades, Palette Poetry, Birmingham Poetry Review, Nashville Review, Cream City Review, and Poet Lore, among others.