Reservoir Meditation

A season for looking at last leaves:

falling, thin,
per-

forming
winter

’s sound like
willows
or

whipping,
white fabric.
& still

this night
stings with studded
branches,

black bucket looking at the moon.

Joshua Gregory was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. He graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2019 and served as the Interim Associate Minister at Old Cambridge Baptist Church in Cambridge, MA, from 2022-23. He is currently the Spiritual Director and Bereavement Counselor of the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, MA. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in the Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pilgrimage, and elsewhere.