Poem to think about what it's like to garden. From 2012 "Top City Poetry" curated by literary editor Dennis Etzel Jr.
T
S
Summer Warbler: Showano, Wisconsin
Dusk. After love we walk a teetering balance of summer twilight. A tiny dull-lemon warbler silhouetted atop a pole wheezes a melody— tiny fluff against sky blowing wind into a pipe organ of passion. Fragile bones carry ligaments and musculature, nearly transparent yet throbbings of sound pour through the air,...
A
After a photograph by Terry Evans
Taxidermist’s artworks, corsages, lie in a hatbox. Horrible beauty of talons and shiny thorn beaks. Loosened petal-fronds release hues of night. Stiff quills disassemble and collapse into absence as an underground seam of darkness rises.