Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Upwards







Screams high up.

A redtail

strafed by two crows.

I know someone

who is alive somewhere.

I saw many comments on the screen

but none of them were hers.

Sometimes you have to stand out in the field

and look upwards, and then you must pretend

the stones at your feet are not objects of interest

when they are.

Feathers spiral downward.


–with lines by Mary Ruefle.