* * * Even the Crows At sundown Venus, small __and brighter than the moon blazes in the Western Sky __Lanky Maples dress up their dull grey bones __in an…
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* * * Son as Hawk look up, ma, ________________i am ________without edge or boundaries ma_____________i fly ________lift and rise with the currents ________________wave after wave this is my forever…
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A crow has been calling in the front yard since the sun rose. It’s the beginning of November and my left breast feels heavy. I lift it and the pressure…
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* * * Winged Gods My steps were still in Pangea, Prints of knuckle and knee But I dreamt of flight As you flapped from branch to branch. When sand…
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* * * Corvus The hawk I hoped to see has, in its approach, diminished to a crow pecking the ground. Just a crow, the kind found wherever I’ve lived,…
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* * * Choice You can sit back see what develops, only jump on the bandwagon if all goes well. If not, splay off saying I knew it wasn’t going to…
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* * * 1. Cordoba, in southern Spain, is famous for its Fiesta de los Patios. The ultimate battle of the blossoms, the festival is held every May, when…
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* * * dirge for the bald eagle for vesta knee deep in galoshes and untamed chocolate mouth, i puddle among the rapids. ________our guide points to the east…
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I didn’t want to write about the break-up. I wanted to write about the Purple Martins: 150,000 of them who, on their way to Brazil, had stopped over in Nashville…
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* * * Leaving to Return Back in ancient Greece, Aristotle looked to the sky wondering at the absence of redstarts in the cold and lo, there were robins –…
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* * * Bluebird___After The Memorial Granny was busy—sweeping and folding we’d not visited at all since she lost the daughter I’d lost my mother.___Granny, please sit. She perched on…
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* * * Oriolus oriolus a ghazal for the first prosthetic eye, found in Shahr-e Sukhteh, The Burnt City 2,900 BCE The augur trades her eye, wet as yolk and…
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* * * Flock constant and inconstant both _________like the fluttering of wings o the manyness of things _________that keep us from ourselves and must be fed _________dusted, displayed, shooed…
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“This all looks very good, Mr. Epping,” said the worn man in the similarly worn brown leather chair as the tip of his nose peaked the sheet of paper Jackson…
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