Henry Street

Morning evaporates from 

wet slate sidewalks, 

grisaille bodies float in negative space. 

Sunlight perforates the murk while 

black and white dog snouts 

sniff up the beginning of the day.

Barbara Cassidy is a poet, singer-songwriter, and Sean-nós singer who resides in Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Open Doors Review, Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Poetry Breakfast, on the 2023/2025 Martin Poetry Path in Newton, The Journal of Undiscovered Poets, Poetry Super Highway, WILDsound Poetry Festival, and set to music by composer Eric Chasalow. She is also the author of a poetry chapbook: Divination (Dancing Girl Press/Chicago/2026).