by Ethan McGuire

A
river
flows gently
throughout my soul.
It speaks to me of
all the lessons God has
taught me through these trying years.
I do not regret hard times, past,
for they shaped and molded me into
what I am today. God knows what He does.

Ethan McGuire is a writer and a healthcare cybersecurity professional whose essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Calla Press, The Dispatch, Emerald Coast Review, Foundling House, Literary Matters, The New Verse News, Time of Singing, and The University Bookman, among other publications. He lives with his wife and their daughter in the Florida Panhandle on the Gulf of Mexico.

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