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Black-Necked Stilt
Because I did not know the bird / I looked at, I memorized its features— // the stately black neck; the thin / black beak and long rose-pink legs;
May 2025
Goodbye Note
Someone hung wind chimes in our cemetery / and a wren house / and mirrored mylar pinwheels.
May 2025
Shift
An elderly man prepares broccoli with slivered almonds and lemon juice, his hands shaky. An elderly woman snores and dreams in her cane rocker, Brahms crescendoing on the radio, Wheel of Fortune muted on the television.
April 2025My Favorite Bird
I prefer the fence-colored bird / who has no song, / or none that he shares with me. // Each day at dusk he stops by to scold me. / Quietly, with a stiff hop. / He seems to know I’ve wasted the day.
April 2025
The Loneliest Monk Listens
The first step is to imagine. / No, before that: breathe. Breathe, and know / breath. That’s where it begins.
April 2025
Regards
A big bumbling bee / hovers like a chopper near your head / and you were going to swat him / but instead you laugh and wave / like a nut because you’re not / at your job and at times / it can be nice to be regarded.
March 2025Snowdrops
Dad was happiest in early spring, / when the lake thawed and the fish stirred. / When bluegills rose to snowflakes. / When the whole world got hungry.
March 2025Like Love Is A Heart
I hate it / when they do that. Like I’m easy / to love. Like love is a heart / he can sit behind / the wheel of, drive / through town, windows / down, dog and girl along / for the ride, as if he’ll never / ever change his mind.
March 2025
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 2025
Wild
I was a sleepwalker through most of those days. A passenger in / my own life. I couldn’t look / to my family and see myself reflected there. I was / born to no one. I was wild.
February 2025
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