Chera Hammons
Chera Hammons writes from the windswept Texas Panhandle. Her forthcoming poetry collections include Salvage List and Birds of America. She enjoys birdwatching and spending time with her horses and donkeys.
Classroom Hatch
I try to feed the chicks mealworms from my hands, / crouching there sometimes for hours. // I can’t remember how / to make them believe in kindness.
February 2025Curve-Billed Thrasher
The curve-billed thrasher digs the small purple potatoes / from the raised garden beds and ruins them. / He sets them back into the hollows in which they grew, / each speared neatly once through the heart.
June 2023Home Range
The mare saw two of her herdmates die when she was captured. One, an exhausted gray stallion, fell and broke his neck in the trailer; the other, a chestnut foal, only weeks old, was chased until its leg fractured, and it had to be euthanized. That was the first this mare knew of our kind. Of our kindness.
April 2020Has something we published moved you? Fired you up? Did we miss the mark? We’d love to hear about it.
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