The Birds: THEIR ARCS – THE YEARS

two finches scooping small arcs
    .         across the yard

 .  plum tree almost
   .         imperceptibly astir
   .         .       shadow-laden slats of house

   .         .       .       ordinary things
  .         .      .    in position as
  .         .       .       ordinary things

   .          around them, above, go the years

Linda Russo [inhabitorypoetics.blogspot.com] is the author of three books of poetry, including Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman, 2015) and Participant (Lost Roads, 2016), winner of the Bessmilr Brigham Poets Prize, and a collection of lyric/hybrid essays To Think of her Writing Awash in Light (2016). She lives in the Columbia River Watershed (eastern Washington State, U.S.A.) and teaches at Washington State University.